Ohhh if only eh

HAHAHA... that sooo funny!!!

3,400 dollars for a 10mb drive!! OMFG!!!

My first PC which was a 286 had a 30mb quantum "bigfoot" 80 pin scsi drive.. it was double height, so took two 5-1/4 inch drive bays, had 10 or so platters, took about a minute to spin up, and sounded like a jet fighter... ahh the days before FDB motors

my second pc was a 486 SX2-50 with 4mb ram and a 270mb drive

I had an Amstrad PCW that came with a daisywheel printer first and then I broke down all the barriers and got myself a groundbreaking Amstrad 286.

Amstrad PC2286 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amstrad 286

I remember being terrified of the whole idea of saving all my lovely programmes on something I couldn't hold, and so steered clear of the mighty 120MB HDD I could have got for my Amiga. This may have been a result of my previous computer being this hybrid BBC / Viglen thing which couldn't have had an HDD even if it wanted to! :lol: It had a clock speed far faster than the Micro everyone's used to, which made playing Elite even more challenging!

Here you go, look at the spec of this beast -

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum

My dad bought a Commodore PC 20 which was like a precursor to the 286 (Not and 086 but an 088 I think) with a 10 inch mono monitor. He only just chucked last month!

I still use my Amiga when I get nostalgic, that had a 8mb ram upgrad and 20mb HD upgrade. Cost £3500 new...

After I left university, I worked for a time at a particular insurance company whose headquarters are in Manchester, and in whose basement was a mainframe so old that the company concerned had an agreement with a company in Holland to supply parts for free on the understanding that they could have the computer for their museum when it was eventually retired. I have no idea of the spec of the beast, but it got through about 2 half-ton pallets of that green stripey paper every week...

Yes... i had a 40mb drive for my A600... and i never ever managed to fill it up!

Here you go, look at the spec of this beast -

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum

That site is mint....

i still have one of these at home :eek:

Apricot portable... 1982.... it has voice recignition!

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And an original IBM PC!

Here you go, look at the spec of this beast -

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum

Luxury! We had the 8512 which had the ultra-flexible 9-pin dot matrix printer which was actually reasonably good at DTP (Carol Vorderman even recommended it! )

First PC we had was one of these OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum which was based on the 8086 architecture but ran up to 3x faster which meant a lot of applications relying on the (lack of) processing power of the Intel chip ran at silly speed. No harddrive in that though :(

First PC we had with a hard drive (aside from the 80286 Olivetti Dad borrowed from work with a whopping 20Mb disc!) was an 80486 Viglen PC with a 170Mb disc we were wondering how we would ever fill. 6 months later, the disc was full and we invested a couple of hundred quid in a 450Mb one.

Chris

Old IBM relics abound here

Hard drives....they came after tape yes?

Did anybody catch the radio4 show on quants this week?

In particular the turning thinking machine test versus a super computer and the fact it could do anything a supercomp could do, logically speaking and eventually?

Also quite scarily just installed DMS on an old pIII, now placebo it might be but I'm certain it's just as quick surfing as one of these core 2 duo's...of course if I go to more than one page at a time it's a different result, but still it's good for old hardware and a reminder of what small footprint os's can really do....

Crikey what can you do with all that space?

Crikey what can you do with all that space?

Pr0n

Just been looking at the museum and I'm amazed at some of the brand name's who have had a crack at computers but are now doing different things eg. Saitek(gamepads)alacatel (phone bits)

Old IBM relics abound here

C'mon, Chris ain't that old :P

My first PC had a ten meg HD and an 8088.......

Then progressed to a twenty meg HD and CGA graphics

Started with a Sinclair ZX spectrum and a tape recorder to store programs and on to the heady heights of the Commodore 16 and then an Amiga 500 .........once paid £70 for 8 MB of ram

I had an Amstrad PCW that came with a daisywheel printer first and then I broke down all the barriers and got myself a groundbreaking Amstrad 286.

Amstrad PC2286 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Amstrad 286

:rofl:I remember selling those things...

It was the 8256... 8512 and the top of range 9512!

Then for the customer seeking high end performance, I would sell an IBM PS1 with 640K RAM and a bulging 30Mb Hard Drive.

Funnier still............ I am still **** at computers now!

:rofl:I remember selling those things...

It was the 8256... 8512 and the top of range 9512!

Then for the customer seeking high end performance, I would sell an IBM PS1 with 640K RAM and a bulging 30Mb Hard Drive.

Funnier still............ I am still **** at computers now!

Stick to telly's Terry, much safer. :P;)

:D:D

:rofl:

Chris

This is about as close as I got to a 10MB hard disk

:D:D

Euugghhh

Three drives on a sled! That's really going to hammer the rebuild times for the array.:thumbdwn:

Good old IBM hey :rolleyes: