Harddisk You Might Have Never Seen

wow i didnt know they have hard disks as big as them before! they are massive compared to these days aint they?! now they are just about the size of your palm giving you about 300 gigabytes now! did you take the pictures from a computer history museum in japan? i never knew that any exsisted. i probably thought ifs its rubbish its gone in the bin or partially recyclyed!

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Well, in the past few days (and this is going to sound ignorant) i saw a laptop HD.. and, on the contrary to these posted here... THEY'RE WAYYYYYYY TOO SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pc's should use this HD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Are you sure these aren't motorcycle engines? *grins* Seriously, I wonder how many MP3s I could get on one of those ... and my next question after that would be, "How badly would I hurt myself when I had to move that thing out of my apartment at the end of the semester?" Heh.

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Don't you just love living in 2006. from looking at that..

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Thank you for bringing this thread up....

Reminds me of my good old days, visting this place.

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I remember I saw a show on the history of personal computing once where they showed a bunch of those, some even larger then those (but I forget where they were from... I'm sure googling you could find more). All the early generation HD's were ginormous though, I mean they were small comapred to having computers made of tubes that took up a huge room... but still... glad they improved the tech a 'bit'

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well, Computers weren't so big in the 1980-1985, for example zx spectrum or commodore, but they were for home market and hard drives like that - I don't know if they were used by home users, they really were very expensive, even the ordinary 20-60MB HDDs were really expensive to have.. (much more expensive than the whole computer) Furthermore, the reading and writing speed was really slow and the sound made by it was also not silent.. I had a 40 MB HDD in my Amiga 500, and also had an 400 MB HDD for Amiga 500+ but I was still using floppy disks, those were the days, file systems weren't so good as they are now and they were slow and usually messed up when electricity disappeared and appeared.

Maybe those kind of storage were needed for NASA, which needed to store lots of graphics and information and etc. Games at those times did not take more than 1-2 floppy disks, if not counting the simulators on Silicon Graphics computers usually for the Army. A lot of whom used ROM to store information which you cannot delete or write, it was faster, or cartridges appeared to be useful too.

 

 

 

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I remember the days of piles of floppies to store my games, *sniff* ah the golden days

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Motorcycle engines? Those things are even bigger than the water pump we use at home. Geez ... just look at the size of those things. How the heck is anyone supposed to connect them to the system? If you've got to move your computer somewhere else, it'll cause a hell of a problem.

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wow, that gemmy is niiiiice. It even has it's own psu . And 2,2Gb, that thing must have cost a fortune back then

Other ones are nice too, if could get one of those for few money, I would definately get it

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