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I found this video today, and thought it was pretty interesting. The hard drive he's dissecting is a IBM server hard drive from the late 70's - early 80's and cost over $250,000 new. In it's 9 beautiful platters inside, it contains a whopping 10 megs of data storage. I thought it was interesting, so I thought some of y'all e-waste guys would think it was pretty cool.
The video is 45 minutes long, so to see the inside skip to around the 8:45 mark.
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My first computer I purchased with the money I made mowing lawns, I used to charge 5 dolars a lawn, and the computer cost me just over $5,000. I was 12 years old, it was 1979, I purchased an NEC 8801 with 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch floppies with a 150 BPS acoustic coupler modem that you had to dial the rotary phone, then strap the hand receiver to the modem with a piece of velcro. At the time the salesman was trying to convince me to purchase a 1 megabyte Winchester drive. It was as long as a shoebox, and about half the height and 3/4 the width. I will never forget him telling me that it was all the drive space I would ever need, and all just for $1000 dollars.
That's not even enough memory to hold my current phone list, or load a web page in today's world.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
NMW - Fast forward 5 years to 1984. I spent $2500 for a Tandy 1000 with an 8088 processor and 128 KB of memory, a 512 kilobyte memory expansion module for a grand total of 640 KB of memory; not 1 but 2 - 5 1/4" floppy drives, a 9x12 pin Dot Matrix printer and an RGB (color) monitor. Later, I bought my first hard drive - salesman told me I would never need more than a 10 MEGABYTE HDD. Fast forward to today - my new Blackberry Z10 has more computing power than what went to moon in the first landing module and the Saturn rocket combined, and it only cost me $140.00. My how times have changed.
This is my first time ever hearing about an 8" floppy drive.
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yeah...my first computer was a Commodore 64. I remember when the 128 came out and we debated on whether or not to get it. Then...I bought a Gateway. It came in like 4 or 5 boxes...Ah...the memory of the sound of the modem dialing in for an hour and it be busy....
They looked like a 33 rpm record only thinner and in a permanent jacket. With that in mind, we had a couple of recent high school grads helping us at our annual e-waste amnesty day recently. One had never seen a VHS tape rewinder and another had no clue what a stereo turntable was. Sure made me feel old. I remember playing 78 rpm records on my old RCA record player that also had a "Wire recorder" built in. Not magnetic tape, but a thin wire that it recorded on. Those were the days!Originally Posted by 41haikuwarriors
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Yeah...I picked up an 8-track player that still works along with about 10 or 15 cassettes. My kids are amazed.
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If anyone wants to relive their childhood computer days, I have 2 Commodore 64 systems and a Tandy computer in my garage. Send me an offer
I think our first computer was an HP bought around '93 or '94, before that all i ever did was play that "Lawnboy" (or whatever it was called) game at school on Fridays.
And of course typing class.
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Thanks for sharing!
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shendog
I will pm you about the Commodore 64.
I have several Commodore 64's and an Atari computer as well, so if shendog sells his, I'll sell you mine.If anyone wants to relive their childhood computer days, I have 2 Commodore 64 systems and a Tandy computer in my garage. Send me an offer
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I love me some commodore stuff.
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