Come show your old hard drive

Here are my 2 drives from back in the day.. oh, maybe 8 to 10 years ago?

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st3491a.html

and

http://www.dealtime.co.uk/xPC-Fujitsu_Desktop_MPB3032AT_3_2_GB

I'm currently using a WD 20gig value IDE drive and am planning on upgrading to a 80gig soon.

But back in the day, that 400mb drive seemed endless space. And the 3gig one even more so. What were your first drives. Just type in the model number in google and it should be there. After all, who would want a 428mb 3200rpm drive now-a-days? :rolleyes:

I dont know the model no. , but it was a 4 gig fujitsu HD, but as i said i aint got it on me as i leant my old pc to a freind for some old games to b played on, atm ive got a maxtor fireball 40 gig HD and dont plan to upgrade atm.

My first computer didn't have a hard drive.
It was a Macintosh Plus, just if it were a classic I could have put Unix on it

Here's my old bad boy Faster then a speeding turtle with its 8Mhz CPU and 1Mb of ram, oh but wait there's more. It could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM!!!

yeah, I know it's a hunk of s**t compared to stuff we have now, but that thing cost like 1200 bucks when my family bought it.

The video died five years ago ... so I gave it away.

After that I had a Pentium 233 with 2Gig WD harddrive, I have no idea how much ram it had though.

Then I upgraded to a 533 Celeron with 316 Mb of ram and a 4 and 13Gb WD Hard Drives.

then I upgraded to the computer I have now, which has 2 60 Gb IBM drives, 512 Mb of RAM, and a 1.4 Ghz Athlon.

But, to be honest, I loved my mac ... I miss that damn thing.

then I upgraded to the computer I have now, which has 2 60 Gb IBM drives, 512 Mb of RAM, and a 1.4 Ghz Athlon.

which when u look back on it in 10-16 yrs time will look like a hunk of sh*t compared to what we will have :biggrin:

Not really. Since in 5 years we wont even be using the same architecture.

If anything, it should be pointed out that the Mac's are the L68 architecture, which is adversly different then the commonly used X86. this also means that the clock speed is very representational of how fast the older macs run. Obviously this isn't true anymore.

We already have stuff out now that will make my computer look like s**t, so what are you talking about? (Specifically 64-bit processing and such)

Basically what we have now is aproching the maximum ability of the architecture we use now. Yes a few more Ghz can be sqeezed out, but that really isn't solving the problem is it? :smile:

Quantum computing all the way. It sounds made up when it's explained to you, but they are putting a lot of money into making it work. The basic idea is that you break the processing down into a (potentially infinite) number of tasks, then send these tasks off to be processed in other dimensions. Like I said, it sounds like it must be a joke, but... it isn't :smile:

IBM should have chosen the 68000.

OK...thats true, with 64 bit processing comes extreme heat, and sooner or later, air flow cooling wont be enough, so then comes along mr BTX case and says im better use me, but mr 64 bit says wait what about mrs PCI express why dont we wait until all of us are created and have a completely new motherboard and case lay out.

My first computer had no hard drive. Amiga 1000's only have an 800kb floppy drive and 256kb RAM (but I got mine upgraded to 512!)