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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:06:00 PM EDT
It seems like yesterday I was playing quake 3, building phase change systems for overclocking my pentium 4 and paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars for 120gb big ass hard drives that ran hot and made a lot of noise.
Now this tiny little thing that feels like there is nothing inside of it holds FOUR FUCKING TERABYTES! And this thing is mostly useless space of a case material and connectors. Wtf man. 
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:09:35 PM EDT
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Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:11:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies. 
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:11:34 PM EDT
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Quake 3… lol.
Quake I/II and OG Pentiums here. A 250MB drive back in the day was MASSIVE. Zip drives came out and we were AMAZED. Does OP even remember flipping over to side B to get to the Willamette valley? Banker, 18 oxen, all the bullets, zero food, leave in March. Strenuous pace. Filling meals. Don’t ford the rivers and don’t slow down cause someone got dysentery… either rarely works. Take the toll road. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:12:41 PM EDT
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I had the same sensation the first time I played the Nintendo Switch. Grew up with Gameboy, NES, etc. I was sitting outside on the porch one night playing Breath of the Wild on the Switch and I was just blown away by it. To think I am playing a game of this magnitude on a portable system with this level of graphics on a lit screen?!? To the kid in me it was astounding. Thinking back to Gameboy and all it's iterations I just never thought I would have that much power in a portable system. And it's so thin and light! Just amazing when you stop and think about it.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:14:47 PM EDT
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I remember reading a computer magazine ad for a 1gb hard drive in the 90's. I was like holy shit. You would never be able to fill that thing up.
Times have changed. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:18:15 PM EDT
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I remember a buck a meg was a good price for a hard drive.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:19:22 PM EDT
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A SATA SSD?
OK gramps. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:20:12 PM EDT
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I was thrilled to get a 20MB hard drive in an external case for my Osborne-I when I graduated from college. Cost was close to $2K at the time as I recall. Times have changed for sure.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:20:54 PM EDT
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1k Sinclair zx80 baby…
Went insane and upgraded to a Sinclair zx spectrum…with 48k |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:21:27 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:22:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:22:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A SATA SSD? OK gramps. You have a non SATA backplane nas? Wow that’s cool! |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:23:16 PM EDT
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Pepperidge Farms remembers this...
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:23:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember reading a computer magazine ad for a 1gb hard drive in the 90's. I was like holy shit. You would never be able to fill that thing up. Times have changed. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:23:41 PM EDT
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I still remember when I got to go visit a shiny new VAX-11 (which took up half the basement in an office building) and ran my own Fortran program using a small deck of punch cards.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:26:19 PM EDT
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Some Time must have been early to mid 90s I was sat in a meeting where an Engineer wanted to buy a 1Gb hard drive. Everybody choked on their drinks and the chief who was Glaswegian said what the fuck for. It was crazy expensive.
My first job at IH there was some strange huge dispensing machine that we had to program with these.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:29:35 PM EDT
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That's not shit man.
Hold a 1TB micro SD card in your hand. On, and it's only $156! Holy fuck, how is that even possible?! https://a.co/d/dRxaQCQ |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:33:40 PM EDT
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I had a stack of 12tb drives sitting on my desk at work. I wondered at what point in the past that was more than the total storage that existed was.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:34:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's not shit man. Hold a 1TB micro SD card in your hand. On, and it's only $156! Holy fuck, how is that even possible?! https://a.co/d/dRxaQCQ Yea that shit is just black magic. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:40:41 PM EDT
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And every single one of those has secret programing inside that will make you centrifuges explode, and comunicate directly with the ATF.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:41:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still remember when I got to go visit a shiny new VAX-11 (which took up half the basement in an office building) and ran my own Fortran program using a small deck of punch cards. I was one of the last people in my country to be skilled in and working with punched cards, 7 bit, no parity goodness. The year - 2007. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:41:24 PM EDT
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01101100 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110011 in binary.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:47:59 PM EDT
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I helped Xerox remove a computer from their building on the 7th floor in Rochester, NY
It took the entire 7th floor |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:51:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:...Does OP even remember flipping over to side B to get to the Willamette valley? Banker, 18 oxen, all the bullets, zero food, leave in March. Strenuous pace. Filling meals. Don’t ford the rivers and don’t slow down cause someone got dysentery… either rarely works. Take the toll road. I remember having to change the cassette tape... (Edit, what collector_rob wrote. Oh, and people were using punch cards in 2007?! Holy shit.) Choplifter and Joust were the shit on an Apple IIe. It is amazing, OP. About as amazing as the size of the data to fill them. Be me, buying 1TB NVMe drive a year or so ago "I'll never fill this up..." Oops. Well, at least I don't have time anymore to play all of these games I can't fit on my SSD. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:51:29 PM EDT
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Unlimited capacity!
 The Science geeks would wear them in leather holsters, like gunfighters... |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 2:59:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:12:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI was bad ass at instagib. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:15:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember a buck a meg was a good price for a hard drive. Came here to say this. I bought a 320MB Maxtor HD and was so excited to only pay $320! What a deal that was! I wish I had my old magazines from the early 80s where 1200 baud modems were $800 and other components were just as ridiculous in price. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:19:22 PM EDT
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My Mother in Law worked on the fourth Univac in 1953. She went on to work at Burroughs where she wrote the S.W.I.F.T. program used to this day for international bank transfers. She had some stories.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:20:23 PM EDT
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Welcome to the future, man!
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:42:30 PM EDT
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Laughs in 110 bad modem then later a 5mb hard drive. My first job 30+ years ago they were still programming the cnc plate burners with punch cards.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:43:53 PM EDT
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My first computer had a whopping 16k of RAM and NO hard drive at all.
It was replaced, about a year later, with one that had 64k of RAM and an incredible 10gb hard drive. We were in high cotton. 
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:50:28 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:50:35 PM EDT
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Quoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies. Quoted: Laughs in 7.5" floppies. Why y’all talking about your old ladies’ titties? |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:54:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You have a non SATA backplane nas? Wow that’s cool! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A SATA SSD? OK gramps. You have a non SATA backplane nas? Wow that’s cool! Why are you putting a single SSD in a NAS? |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 3:54:59 PM EDT
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You guys are my People-- I remember Winchester drives on IBM 270s, and I remember being one of the kids thinking "A ten MB hard drive on my 286?!?! We'll never fill that up!" How quickly we learned-- and don't get me started about the World Wide Wait, but I do kinda miss bulletin board services--
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:01:57 PM EDT
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My first hard drive was 40MB.
Bought a 250MB drive for $250 to upgrade it. I was in hog heaven. I had to drive to a little shop in Atlanta to get it that cheap. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:14:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why are you putting a single SSD in a NAS? A single ssd? Huh? I’m too rich to even joke about that. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:51:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Quake 3… lol. Quake I/II and OG Pentiums here. A 250MB drive back in the day was MASSIVE. Zip drives came out and we were AMAZED. Does OP even remember flipping over to side B to get to the Willamette valley? Banker, 18 oxen, all the bullets, zero food, leave in March. Strenuous pace. Filling meals. Don’t ford the rivers and don’t slow down cause someone got dysentery… either rarely works. Take the toll road. This is the way. Bunch of the girls in our class always got pissed that the guys figured it out and would reach Oregon every time we got to play… we’d intentionally take the river and hit rocks just before the end to rub it in even more |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:52:51 PM EDT
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atari 800xl and Hatari in the background ftw
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:58:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:59:46 PM EDT
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I still watch porn on an abacus.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:06:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWe had Wangs with tape drives my freshman year. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:09:32 PM EDT
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I had a temp job in about 1995, where I would fetch 8 track looking tapes for the giant mainframe master computer.
the room had dozens of huge reel to reels constantly moving, forwards and backwards, irrc. The machine would spit out a list of numbers, and you’d go fetch the stack of cassettes. I was told it was saving transaction data. It was a creepy sci fi complex. Just You and the Machine, all night long. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:10:41 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:12:00 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:13:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:15:30 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:17:42 PM EDT
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Remember when AutoCAD came on 21 3 1/2" floppy disks?
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Posted: 7/18/2022 5:18:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI still have mine |
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