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From: Plano, Tx.
my dad up till a few years ago had stored a computer in his closet, it had a drive for floppies that as like 14inches, they were huge I saw a few. and the computer itself was once piece the keyboard was attached to the monitor. and he said it only had three functions. beats me, the oldest computer I was on was in the 80's. but I can remember before the internet.
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From: Wichita, KS
I still have three TRS-80 color computers, and two of the tape recorders. I helped my dad write his grading programs (he's a teacher)....this was before you could buy stuff like that. He had a couple of the TRS-80 Model 3 or 4s, the ones with monitor, computer, and keyboard all one unit, but they're long gone.
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From: Shawnee, Ks
A single TB drive would be ok, the problem is that you now have alot of data on one drive so when that drive fails better have it backed up or you will have to buy 2 TB drives and run them in a Raid1 (mirrored)
I have 5 250gig drives running in a Raid 5 setup in my server for my home network, that gives me a TB of storage along with redundancy incase something happens to a drive. I feel much safer that way, hate to lose all the "stuff" I download.
I started with a TI and a cassette drive then moved to Commodores and 386's and 486's. I bought a 1x CD Reader when they first came out and everyone laughed. I remember having conversations with friends about how you could NEVER fill up a one gig hard drive. The first Pentium I built was a Pentium 75, the cpu and AT MB cost me $500 and the 16meg of ram was another $400, stuck it in my old 486 AT Case along with a PCI Voodoo video card and a 211meg hard drive, hooked all that up to my high speed 9600baud modem and I was "the Man."
Water cooling is my thing to mess with now, its a fun geek thing. Nothing like sticking a Pontiac Bonneville heater core and a fish tank water pump in a computer.
I have 5 250gig drives running in a Raid 5 setup in my server for my home network, that gives me a TB of storage along with redundancy incase something happens to a drive. I feel much safer that way, hate to lose all the "stuff" I download.
I started with a TI and a cassette drive then moved to Commodores and 386's and 486's. I bought a 1x CD Reader when they first came out and everyone laughed. I remember having conversations with friends about how you could NEVER fill up a one gig hard drive. The first Pentium I built was a Pentium 75, the cpu and AT MB cost me $500 and the 16meg of ram was another $400, stuck it in my old 486 AT Case along with a PCI Voodoo video card and a 211meg hard drive, hooked all that up to my high speed 9600baud modem and I was "the Man."
Water cooling is my thing to mess with now, its a fun geek thing. Nothing like sticking a Pontiac Bonneville heater core and a fish tank water pump in a computer.
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From: Shawnee, Ks
The bonny and chevette core's are the most popular. There are some companies that make radiators that are tailored for the computer cooling market. Every water setup I build gets leak tested with just the cooling loop, blocks, rad, pump, T-line or resivoir, no other components, for 24 to 48 hours before the important stuff gets put in the case. The water preasure and temps are nothing compared to what these cores were made for, plus the coolant used is a mix of 90% distilled water and 10% additive like Water Wetter or Zerex racing coolant. There isnt any corrosion or extra wear and tear from temprature swings on the heater cores like they would see in a car.I use Mercedes coolant because its clear so it doesnt change the color of the water. Some guys use VW coolant because its blue and looks cool in the tubes.
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From: Slippery Rock University
wow 1 gig gard drive... id need litterally 200 of those with all the stuff i have on my comp (yes that too lol) You gotta have stuff to trade at LAN parties, and games dont always cut it, but music does...
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From: Cool, CA
Originally Posted by jroehl
Nah...flying cars aren't gonna happen until we embrace nuclear technology. It just takes too much energy to get them off the ground.
Jason
Jason
HAHA can you imagine the busy soccer mom in her flying SUV talking on the phone, dealing with the 4 kids, trying to play with the DVD player and feed one of the kids at the same time as trying to navigate, watch for vehicles in 3 dimensions - in the fog??? Man that's enough to make me agorophobic!!!
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From: Bonita Springs FL
Originally Posted by jroehl
Nah...flying cars aren't gonna happen until we embrace nuclear technology. It just takes too much energy to get them off the ground.
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From: Northwest Indiana
Originally Posted by jroehl
Nah...flying cars aren't gonna happen until we embrace nuclear technology. It just takes too much energy to get them off the ground.
At least I've got you beat. I learned on TRaSh-80s that didn't even have floppy drives. I also remember when a 20 megabyte harddrive cost around $2000 for an Apple. I never did get to use any of the 8" floppies, but I have seen them.
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At least I've got you beat. I learned on TRaSh-80s that didn't even have floppy drives. I also remember when a 20 megabyte harddrive cost around $2000 for an Apple. I never did get to use any of the 8" floppies, but I have seen them.
Jason
I finally pitched a TRS80 Model 4 about a year ago -- couldn't give it away. I still have a Model 4/p just in case I ever get the urge to play with the old stuff. I had a Model 2 at one time and I pitched a bunch of, (some new in the box), 8" floppies. I personally believe the early days of home computers was a lot more fun than the new stuff. I taught myself Assembler, Basic, FORTRAN, C (YUK), and Pascal. I worked for a few years as a programer but writing code to implement someone else's dumb idea is not fun so I went back to doing Hardware.
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