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How Big Was Your First Internal Hard Drive?
Well, I'm a little older than your "average" Geek here, and I come from the pre hard drive days. In the beginning we would lose anything in memory upon power down. We graduated to the then "massive" storage device of 5.25" floppy disk. Usually one for the OS and one for storage. I didn't have an actual hard drive until my first 286 computer.
My first hard drive was a whopping 40 megabyte...that's right MEGABYTE...not GIGABYTE! It had a 30 meg partition for DOS and later I installed Windows 3.0 (not 3.1), and a hidden 10 meg partition. Ah, those were the days!
How big was your first internal drive? Inquiring minds want to know. :)
My first hard drive was a whopping 40 megabyte...that's right MEGABYTE...not GIGABYTE! It had a 30 meg partition for DOS and later I installed Windows 3.0 (not 3.1), and a hidden 10 meg partition. Ah, those were the days!
How big was your first internal drive? Inquiring minds want to know. :)
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Permalink Reply by Andrew on -
my first was a 20 gig, thought it'd be enough. Now I don't have enough space on my 250 gig external.
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Permalink Reply by Amit Dahan on -
20GB, probably had one with less before that, but I didn't bother knowing since I was like 8 y/o :X
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Permalink Reply by d on -
Mine was under a gig. Of course I also remember the 5.25 floppy on my C64. I think it was called a 1541. the drive croaked on me and I couldn't get it fixed. It was a disk alignment problem whatever that is.it was't until the Windows 95 and Pentium that I got back to a computer. We started surfing the web ...........give me a cold beer and let's reminisce.
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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on -
Seagate ST-506 MFM (Modified Frequency Modulation) = 5MB in 1980
Seagate ST-412 MFM (Modified Frequency Modulation) =10 MB in 1981
Seagate ST-412 RLL (Run Length Limited) =10 MB in 1981
Back then Seagate was called Shugart Technology.
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Permalink Reply by jake on -
yea i remember running 98 on a 40gb we could never use it all then we installed xp and still couldn't use it all at the time then we got an 80gb and couldnt use it all. but now, now currently on my laptop i have used 62.2gb damm still not 80gb
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Permalink Reply by implying implications on -
80gb in 1999
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