How big was your 1st hard drive...

[Don66]

40mb Hyundi 16 MHz 386.
Bought from a yard sale for 50 bucks..
didn't even have a 3.5" floppy.

 

[Valrandir]

My first harddrive was a western digital 100Mb
One day, a terrabyte of storage will be cousidered old. Today is the 'Good old times' of tomorrow.

 

[Metron]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
A 5 MEG, yes that is MEG Shugart in 1985.

I had a 5 Mb Apple ProFile hard drive on an Apple Lisa (predecessor to the Mac)... same time frame.

 

[htmlmasterdave]

Six megabytes in an 8088 😉

 

[networkman]

Lt. Kernel 20meg hard drive for my C=64. 🙂

Cost about $800 at the time. :Q

 

[Metron]

I was using Cassette Tapes for "Mass Storage" on my C64... :shocked:

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: Metron
I was using Cassette Tapes for "Mass Storage" on my C64... :shocked:

I also used cassette tapes for my TRS-80 supercomputer! Also had 16K RAM and ran at a blazing 1.77 MHz.

 

[IHYLN]

250LB

oh first hard drive... 100MB.

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: Metron
I was using Cassette Tapes for "Mass Storage" on my C64... :shocked:

Well, yes, when I first got my C=64, it was with a cassette drive. Disk drives and hard drives came later. 😉

 

[DerelictDev]

867mb if i recall correctly, this was one of those old old monitor + computer in a box types.

My next step up which was some compaq had 18gb i think w/ windows 95. I was rocking it hard

 

[Boonesmi]

my first 2 pc's didnt have harddrives 🙁

i really learned to hate loading apps from tape.

 

[dev0lution]

20MB drive that was like a coaster for a MacPlus. I don't even want to know how much it was per MB....

 

[anatawa]

my first hard drive is.. 40MB.... I had mine so longgggg time agooo... i wonder where is it now.. -__-;, but my first pc don't have a drive on it back then.. *sad*

 

[bluestrobe]

120mb drive in our 486 Packard Bell

 

[corkyg]

A 20 MB Hardcard in an original PC (8088 CPU)

 

[snoturtle]

had a 20 meg external SCSI 5 1/4" half height drive hooked up to a Mac SE 😛

 

[djnsmith7]

500 MB drive that came w/ (yes, I know...Horrible...) Packard Bell (Gosh I hate typing this) that I bought way back when...Fate would be on my side w/ this POS, as the HD crashed after a week...So, I returned it & never looked back...

 

[AngleDust]

2 gigs, probably still works too if i can find it i think it was a seagate

 

[Solema]

40MB Conner in my Magnavox 386SX 20Mhz PC, running GeoWorks Ensemble and AOL 1.0! I remember my dad buying it because it was one of the first PC's with a VGA monitor.

 

[imported_Imp]

Don't remember the brand, but it was about 800mb which just fit windows 95 and had about 200mb maximum free. Needed 400mb for Half-Life when it came out, boy did that suck.

 

[Paperlantern]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan
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 too, 20 MB drive

 

[Paperlantern]

pffff... replied to this before reading to the bottom... and whats worse i was the last one to reply to it over 2 months ago... i need sleep... good lord

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

20mb hard card...

 

[pkme2]

Mine was 20MB.

 

[Rubycon]

Seagate MFM 40MB full height 5 1/4" drive. Sounded like a coffee grinder. :Q

The 30MB ERL drive had a strange noise when seeking like a slinky banging against a mirror. When it developed a bad cluster it would sound like a miniature gearbox meshing. hehe