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We are Going To See Terabyte Hard Drives Very Soon LOOK!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/resear...Animation.html
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/resear...Animation.html
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Cute Cartoon... But I just read in Popular science that moveable hard drives will be outdated and gone by 2008... They have terabyte memory chips- they will be in cell phones, and palm computeres, laptops... They already starting to use them in Tokyo - You can use your cell phone to purchase stuff from vending machines too. Technology keeps moving.
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I had the privilege of working on one of the first commercial computers, the Univac Model 1. The memory drums were fixed head and about the size of a 55 gallon drum. We have made considerable progress since then.
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Originally Posted by dono
I had the privilege of working on one of the first commercial computers, the Univac Model 1. The memory drums were fixed head and about the size of a 55 gallon drum. We have made considerable progress since then.
Dono
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Actually I miss the days of switches and blinking lights. The oldest commercial computer I worked on was a DEC PDP 11/45. I kept a couple boards of core memory when it was scraped.
As for progress... hard to imagine where the next 50 years will take us.
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dude were gonna have flying cars using hydrogen before this centuary is over. Im still not gettin rid of the Ford. LOL...
dude the oldest comp i was on was an 1980's apple with the 5 1/4" floppies. It was nice... didnt have to worry about viruses nearly as much back in the day.
dude the oldest comp i was on was an 1980's apple with the 5 1/4" floppies. It was nice... didnt have to worry about viruses nearly as much back in the day.
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Originally Posted by xlt4me
Careful Dono, your slide rule is falling out of the pouch.
Actually I miss the days of switches and blinking lights. The oldest commercial computer I worked on was a DEC PDP 11/45. I kept a couple boards of core memory when it was scraped.
As for progress... hard to imagine where the next 50 years will take us.
Actually I miss the days of switches and blinking lights. The oldest commercial computer I worked on was a DEC PDP 11/45. I kept a couple boards of core memory when it was scraped.
As for progress... hard to imagine where the next 50 years will take us.
Dono
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Originally Posted by drumlinecowboy
dude were gonna have flying cars using hydrogen before this centuary is over. Im still not gettin rid of the Ford. LOL...
dude the oldest comp i was on was an 1980's apple with the 5 1/4" floppies. It was nice... didnt have to worry about viruses nearly as much back in the day.
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I got you people that think the apple and the 5.25 drive was old.. I had a TI-99/4A with a TAPE RECORDER... I also had a Commodore VIC 20 with a TAPE DRIVE.... I have used and ported software written in IBM's GW basic to run on an Atari 1200XL, a TI-99/4A, and a Commodore 64...... Took four months to get all the code entered on the other three machines. The friend that wrote the original program gave me a print out from a Star NX-01 dot matrix printer........ BTW I'm 25. I also OWNED an IBM PC JR.............. I used a 486 DX4-100 for about 8 years....
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I got smart real fast after adding a 5.25 external floppy to a vic-20 just in time to see the "new" commode-doors come in with 3.5 inch floppies!
I had just spent two weeks learning to program the floppy to boot up in basic, and quit in disgust until the technology reached a point where I could afford something that would actually DO something without me having to write my own programs as I went.
The next PC I got was a 486. The one after it was win95 capable. The only things I have left of the old days are some cases, and some floppy disk trays that I suddenly realised were the perfect size for CD/R's...
I had just spent two weeks learning to program the floppy to boot up in basic, and quit in disgust until the technology reached a point where I could afford something that would actually DO something without me having to write my own programs as I went.
The next PC I got was a 486. The one after it was win95 capable. The only things I have left of the old days are some cases, and some floppy disk trays that I suddenly realised were the perfect size for CD/R's...
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pfogle, that is an accomplishment. How fast was the 386, and how much memory did it have?
Win95 would have run (I use 'run' loosely here...) on that 486DX4-100, no problem with 8 megs of memory, I'll bet.
My folks bought our first computer when we lived in Taiwan in the early '80s. It was an illegal clone of an Apple II+, with 16k memory onboard, and a 32k upgrade, one 5.25" floppy, and a monochrome monitor. We got a IIe in the mid-'80s when we were back in the States, and an 8MHz IBM with maybe 512K in the late '80s.
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Win95 would have run (I use 'run' loosely here...) on that 486DX4-100, no problem with 8 megs of memory, I'll bet.
My folks bought our first computer when we lived in Taiwan in the early '80s. It was an illegal clone of an Apple II+, with 16k memory onboard, and a 32k upgrade, one 5.25" floppy, and a monochrome monitor. We got a IIe in the mid-'80s when we were back in the States, and an 8MHz IBM with maybe 512K in the late '80s.
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If I recall it was a 386DX40 with 20megs of ram.. The 486 ran windows 98se with no problems.. I actually had 95 run for 6 months solid with no crashes on that 486 too.... The 386 was a bit slow, but it did work...