jedipi

Apr 3 2005, 03:44 AM

I just found some harddisk pic in a japaness webside. they are so big (size, but not capacity)... 1983, NEC, 14inch, KU800 3620rpm ，2.7GB NEC, 「JS4380(PATTY) 1982, 400MB/3,000rpm 「F6421(Eagle1)」10/1981, 10.5inch, 446MB 3,600rpm 「JS470(Gemmy), 9/1987, 2,200MB/3,000rpm The first 2.5inch HDD「PrairieTek 220」, 21.3MB/3,307rpm

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shahidiimran

Apr 3 2005, 03:56 AM

well, would love to have these hard disks in my pc, but what will be the size of my cuty laptop than????

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spacewaste

Apr 3 2005, 04:34 AM

lol....Man...Those are some OLD ass hard drives.

Thank god I'm not from china in the 1980's

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jipman

Apr 6 2005, 11:21 AM

Who said they didn't complained .

People are always looking for the best and they want the best, that's our nature

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darkool

Apr 13 2005, 08:19 AM

Its Beautifull , i love it its like the old cars , an antique , its a PUNTIAC but in computers LOL, and very fast to

where can i buy one of those ? Maybe they cost lost of money ...

cheers

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LegallyHigh

Jul 27 2008, 07:09 AM

Haha, those don't even look like Hard drives, its weird to think they were that big not too long ago. Those thngs look big enough to pass as small motors (like for a weed wacker or something). However, I'm glad that today the size of computer compenents has decreased because it looks like those things would have a good some weight to them, they would be very unpractical, especially if they hgad tried to make a laptop from them. Other than that though, they look kind of nice, just very unefficient compared to the hard drives of today.

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LegallyHigh

Jul 27 2008, 07:09 AM

Haha, those don't even look like Hard drives, its weird to think they were that big not too long ago. Those thngs look big enough to pass as small motors (like for a weed wacker or something). However, I'm glad that today the size of computer compenents has decreased because it looks like those things would have a good some weight to them, they would be very unpractical, especially if they hgad tried to make a laptop from them. Other than that though, they look kind of nice, just very unefficient compared to the hard drives of today.

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docduke

Jul 27 2008, 03:07 AM

The first computer I ever worked on was an IBM 650 in 1958. (I don't remember the girls being that pretty, then ) The drum was something like 18 inches in diameter, and 2-2.5 feet long. Wikipedia reminds me that it had 2,000 signed 10-digit words of memory. All programming was done in Assembly language. I remember we considered it very advanced, because we didn't have to manually assign numeric addresses for variable locations.

Even then, the CPU was much faster than the drum. The drum was so slow that the Assembly language was called SOAP, Symbolic Optimizing Assembly Program, and it actually worked out where to store the data and executable instructions on the drum so that the next instruction and data would be underneath the read head "just in time" for the CPU to use them. Today, that kind of problem is solved with caches.

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Atomic0

Jul 26 2008, 05:30 AM

Such ancient technology. It reflects how technology has evolved over time at an ever-increasing rate. We may see in the future hard disks being replaced from flash solid state drivers that have no mechanical parts at all.

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xboxrulz

Jul 4 2008, 04:47 AM

That's a pretty big hard drive. It must have been built for mainframes back in the 1970s/1980s when mainframes were still around before clusters replaced them.

xboxrulz

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