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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:20:04 PM EST
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We made the jump from a 386SX with 170mb to a 400mhz HP. Forgot how big the HDD was but it was insignificant compared to any of my thumb drives
 I still find some of it mind blowing. A few years ago I was questioning whether I wanted a 256gb SSD for my OS since they were so expensive. Now all four of my regular PCs have several TB of SSDs and I wouldn't even consider not having one
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:24:13 PM EST
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Op must be like 100 or something. All the cool kids are on NVMe gen4 now.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:25:47 PM EST
[#3]
Ever see punch cards ?
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:26:31 PM EST
[#4]
Wait until you find out phones are cordless now
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:27:45 PM EST
[#5]
We just built a budget array at work using off the shelf 4TB Intel SSDs. When the package came containing the drives, it felt empty. There was something crazy like $9000 of drives in it.
Yeah it's insane. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:27:56 PM EST
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I remember Doom II on a Intel 486 with a bad sound card that would randomly cause crashes. Those were the days.
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:28:14 PM EST
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Unlimited capacity! https://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/sliderules/side2half.jpg The Science geeks would wear them in leather holsters, like gunfighters... |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:28:37 PM EST
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I was finishing my first 386 when the computer club president gave me a 1 MB. stick of memory! I almost cried!
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:29:11 PM EST
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I remember reading about these revolutionary things called SSD's back in the late 90s, early 2000's.
A dime sized piece of silicon would hold more and deliver it faster than anything previously imagined. I figured it wouldn't be during our lifetimes that we could see affordable consumer devices.. now here we are 20 years later and they're pretty ubiquitous. |
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Posted: 7/18/2022 4:53:23 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Laughs in 7.5" floppies.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies. Giggles in punched tape, RK05 disks, and DecTape |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 7:17:54 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember when AutoCAD came on 21 3 1/2" floppy disks? |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 7:22:09 AM EST
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Quoted: 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. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/478694/B8305C5E-7D69-46E8-9CC1-C8C8F026D0F4-2457613.jpg Ewww... A gross SATA drive OP? Why you no NVMe? |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 7:45:39 AM EST
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I can remember playing MINER 49'R on my buddies Atari 400.
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Posted: 7/19/2022 7:51:18 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You have a non SATA backplane nas? Wow that’s cool! These days SATA drives are the cheap slow crap you use for bulk storage. Drives you are real speed from are hooked directly to the PCIe bus. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 7:52:29 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ever see punch cards ?  never had to use them, though.
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:14:07 AM EST
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I can remember playing MINER 49'R on my buddies Atari 400.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/305900/Screenshot_20220719-084438_Google_jpg-2458527.JPG
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:16:30 AM EST
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:19:47 AM EST
[#18]
in 1994 I was a student assistant to a college physics professor. She had a $10,000 grant and had to choose between a brand new workstation computer to do molecular modeling, or a 1.0 gigabyte storage upgrade to her existing computer.
1.0 gig for ten grand. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:21:22 AM EST
[#19]
 What kind of chip you got in that computer, a Dorito? |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:22:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Got a few dozen spinny drives up in this mess, too. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_2005_jpg-2457812.JPG Amazing how all that can now be stored on a device as big as your thumb nail! |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:23:47 AM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Op must be like 100 or something. All the cool kids are on NVMe gen4 now. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/439317/20-147-796-V01-2457832.jpg Samsung Pro is the way to go! |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:24:58 AM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A single ssd? Huh? I’m too rich to even joke about that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Why are you putting a single SSD in a NAS? A single ssd? Huh? I’m too rich to even joke about that.  Are you running a 10gb network? Even the slowest HDD in the slowest NAS can saturate a gig network |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:28:20 AM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Are you running a 10gb network? Even the slowest HDD in the slowest NAS can saturate a gig network Yes, I am on a 10g network. Why does that blow your mind? And you are wrong anyway. A ssd on a nas even on a 1g network makes a difference. Ssd’s are faster in many ways compared to spinners. 10 gb networking is pretty cheap nowadays. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:30:23 AM EST
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies. Say hello to my Winchester Disk 
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:33:36 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: 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. Dell Laptop memory, 1995/1996 4MB was $400  Ask me how I know 
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:35:54 AM EST
[#26]
10001110101
Periodic table with a center piece of mind. 10001110101 |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:37:47 AM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ever see punch cards ? IBM Mainframe was in an air conditioned room even in the Winter (Midwest), had to wear a coat to run the punch cards
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:40:14 AM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Amazing how all that can now be stored on a device as big as your thumb nail! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Got a few dozen spinny drives up in this mess, too. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334993/IMG_2005_jpg-2457812.JPG Amazing how all that can now be stored on a device as big as your thumb nail! |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 8:41:05 AM EST
[#29]
I should look at my Newegg order history over the past 20+ years.
ETA: Dammit, only goes back to 2014. Need to see if I still have the spreadsheet I pulled years ago. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 9:43:02 AM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Giggles in punched tape, RK05 disks, and DecTape Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies. Giggles in punched tape, RK05 disks, and DecTape Those days you had to set the interrupts by jumper, and make sure there were no conflicts - I don't miss that at all. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 10:19:27 AM EST
[#31]
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 In a few years, I suppose you'll be able to get a 4-pack of those at the Dollar Store as stocking stuffers. |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 10:31:40 AM EST
[#32]
I can remember when the IBM AT was new and a companybought the hard drives for $1,000 each and dumped them in the ocean to make an artifical reef.
Hard drive burial at sea |
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Posted: 7/19/2022 3:15:54 PM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That's wild. I didn't know they had gotten to 1TB on SD cards. In a few years, I suppose you'll be able to get a 4-pack of those at the Dollar Store as stocking stuffers. Not just SD cards... MICRO SD cards!  Attached FileHow is that even possible? |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:09:00 PM EST
[#34]
I'm chortling in Babbage...
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:11:27 PM EST
[#35]
I remember playing Bedlam on a TRS-80 in Jr. High. It used an external cassette tape drive. You had to play the tape to load the program.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:17:44 PM EST
[#36]
I remember being on Kali playing Descent and everyone freaking out about this new beta that just dropped called Quake. I downloaded it that night and started playing it. NIN was one of my favorite bands.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:21:00 PM EST
[#37]
My first computer was an IBM 4381
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:23:23 PM EST
[#38]
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 Started to get a 1TB micro SD card for a new tablet. Started reading reviews and nearly every single one said they do not hold 1TB. Most said they were over priced 512g cards. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:33:20 PM EST
[#39]
My friend had a Sinclair computer and tape drive. He got a couple of games (I think pong was one of them) and also a tutorial on Basic. Fascinating times!
What a fascinating, modern age we live in! |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:37:02 PM EST
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:40:05 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 10001110101 Periodic table with a center piece of mind. 10001110101  Clutch 10001110101 I agree |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:42:47 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Laughs in 7.5" floppies. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Laughs in DOS on 5" floppies.  EDIT: actually, my first "paying" data processing job was working on one of these ...  1964 IBM 029 Keypunch Card Punching Demonstration |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:43:08 PM EST
[#43]
Cheap storage is why we have so much shitty code now. Just saying.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:43:10 PM EST
[#44]
IBM 8088 is where it all started for me.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:44:18 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Unlimited capacity! https://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/sliderules/side2half.jpg The Science geeks would wear them in leather holsters, like gunfighters... I have one but it's not as cool as that one. Holster? Check! Knowledge on how to use it? Nope! |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:47:42 PM EST
[#46]
Our first video game was Pong with the console TV overlay screen.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:50:55 PM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I should look at my Newegg order history over the past 20+ years. ETA: Dammit, only goes back to 2014. Need to see if I still have the spreadsheet I pulled years ago. Remember when they were taking bitcoin as payment? "That's stupid!" I thought to myself. "Whoever is gonna use this dumb crap for money?" |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 7:52:41 PM EST
[#48]
My son who works in IT said in 5 years 10TB will be the size of a thumb drive
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Posted: 7/22/2022 8:00:19 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, I am on a 10g network. Why does that blow your mind? And you are wrong anyway. A ssd on a nas even on a 1g network makes a difference. Ssd’s are faster in many ways compared to spinners. 10 gb networking is pretty cheap nowadays. Lol 10gb network. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 8:06:18 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: 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. I once put a $1500 80meg Seagate drive into a 20Mhz 386dx for my Netware fileserver. Also used to buy certain Mitsubishi 5.25 hard drives by the case because they were perfectly happy formatted RLL instead of MFM - 60mb instead of just 40 baby! |
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