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How big was your 1st hard drive...

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Richb1492

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As I look at the 400 gig hard drives I think about The 1st hard drive I bought for a computer. It was a 20 meg and cost 200.00 and i paid 50.00 to have it installed.
How things have advanced sine 1984.
 
3.2gb. it had a bad sector and we paid $50 to upgrade it to a 4.3gb (didn't know hard drive had warranty so ripped off by computer shop)

my first comp had a maxtor 80gig 7200rpm... it crunches and i sold it to a guy, then i got my WD1200JB (120gb) for $84 from dell. still have a $23 200gb drivezilla from 2 years ago sitting unopened.
 
The 20MB hard drive in my dad's computer (IBM PS/2 Model 50) was the first that I used. A few years later, I was given a [by then] very out of date IBM PS/1 with a 30MB hard drive - that would be the first hard drive that was "mine" exclusively.
 
Mine wasn't even a hard drive, per se. It was a 20mb hard card in my Tandy 1000 SL/2. From 20mb to 1.7TB. That's awesome. 🙂 My favorite drives were the 8gb Quantum Bigfoots. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Slick5150
20mb in an IBM PS2 .. 286 processor running at 10mhz if I remember right
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Yup, with 1MB of RAM and 16 color VGA graphics (with 256 color support at CGA res). 🙂
 
Originally posted by: ProviaFan
Originally posted by: Slick5150
20mb in an IBM PS2 .. 286 processor running at 10mhz if I remember right
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Yup, with 1MB of RAM and 16 color VGA graphics (with 256 color support at CGA res). 🙂
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And don't forget about doing BBSs on a 2400 baud modem. 🙂 I think getting a 14.4k modem was the best upgrade I ever had. I couldn't even read the text as it was downloading anymore! LOL
 
30MB or so...(of course I was a kid ~8 years old at the time so it wasn't solely "my" hard drive, but I still used the computer a lot 😉)...I remember being happy about upgrading to 120MB a year or two later 😛
 
50 MB external drive for a Mac. The thing was 12" square and about 2" thick. I remember thinking it had so much capacity the family would never use it all!
 
I didn't even had a hdd when I had a Commodore 128. Just a floppy disk and 128K of ram. Next was a 286 with 20MB of HDD with 512Kb of ram!
 
A friend was bragging back in the early 90's about his new 1gb HD. He paid $1500.00 for it. They had just come out and were very expensive. The norm was 20mb's then. We were all very envious. My first drive was free and I don't remember the capacity but it went in the first computer I assembled, a 386 DX40 with a numeric processor. I think it was around 8 megs and I got it used for free. The memory was the expensive thing. I think it cost me $400.00 for 8 megs of ram. I wanted to play Doom so bad and that computer was just barely able to play it.
 
GB??? Whats a GB?? First HDD was a 10MB drive (don't know the brand...maybe a seagate?). It was on my Leading Edge x86 w/ dos 3.0.
 
Originally posted by: tiap
10meg MFM double bay
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That was my #2.

Now the ST506... ah yes... much like the Intel 4004... the beginning of technologies whose exponential development never ceases to astonish..

They even look low tech nowadays
 
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