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10 MB hard disk from the 1960's
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@nixCraft And you had to flip it over to access the other 5 MB… /s
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@nixCraft expensive Storage for important work which we nowadays use for one or…
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@nixCraft 10 MB. Doch schon so viel. https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Zahlen-bi…
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@nixCraft Looks like a clutch pressure plate or flywheel😉
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@nixCraft in the early '70-ies I used disks like those, but a little smalle…
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@nixCraft ...this corresponds to approx. 125 punched cards
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@nixCraft “And this, boys and girls, is how we played video games back in the…
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@nixCraft "BIC" lighters had not been invented yet. LOL's
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@nixCraft Pulling this disk to take a picture is what caused one of the Newark …
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@nixCraft Ich nutze diese Scheiben in meiner Kreissäge 😜
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@nixCraft everyone please stick to text-only comments as we're running out …
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@nixCraft Seeing that, it's not so hard to imagine the legend about operato…
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@[email protected] a 10mb hdd from 1960 or a laserdisc.
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@prefec2naturally. cats are important, after all :3@nixCraft
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@nixCraft 100mb Winchester drive that was probably the first ever hard drive I …
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@nixCraft Those were the times when things were really Great 😂
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@nixCraft I remember one of those. Had to run in a clean air cooled room, wit…
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@nixCraft And today, 65 yrs later, computer scientists count with qubits ... ht…
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@nixCraft remember walking the drive?
Post #AuaL5EauVXDk8tUPs8 by [email protected]
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@nixCraft They just don't make 'em like they used to! Sad!! 🤓
Post #AuaLYTbzkgLD7GwNlo by [email protected]
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@nixCraft *slaps hard disk* this baby will store an entire desktop background
Post #AuaNVejCALC4dF5iYi by [email protected]
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@nixCraft - WOW; Now that is huge.
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@nixCraft You could *almost* fit a React web app on that thing!
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@waglagon 😂 @nixCraft
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@nixCraft back then, we counted every blessed bit
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@nixCraftYeah, many of them can be used to install discord and talk about it.
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@nixCraft I recall using IBM 2311s. I think they each had a capacity of 5 MB bu…
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@[email protected] wow, MB?I'm just looking at my downloads folder a…
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@nixCraft I remember when I had ultra fast 3.5" 4GB SCSI HDD drive back ar…
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@nixCraft Next largest advancement will be unification of working memory and st…
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@nixCraft Damn, I remember those! 😉 And Fastrand drums! 😉
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@nixCraft Holy Shit, That hard drive platter looks like a Pho-king sawblade!
Post #AuaWjFi8sGaKgW9maG by [email protected]
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@nixCraft Gives a whole new insight to the term “hard drive”.
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@nixCraft I've had spare tires for cars that were smaller than that.
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@nixCraft .. not to talk about the keyboard! 🥶 #justjoking
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@nixCraft Is that from the famous Winchester?
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@nixCraft all my life I thought that was a hat intended to be worn when officia…
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@nixCraft 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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@nixCraft pretty sure I saw some of those still in use on the 80's, and imp…
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@nixCraft I can only imagine what the seek time was on that.
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@nixCraft STOP TOUCHING THE SURFACELook, I *KNOW* itt doesn't matter any mo…
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@nixCraft
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@nixCraft I’m gonna tell my kids this in an LP
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@EdCates @nixCraft top speed of 40 MB/s?
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@davecykl @nixCraft No, you didn't. The reading heads were located on both …
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@nixCraft update the disk to using modern techniques, so it stores infinitely m…
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@tarknassus @nixCraft I loved having floppies. Felt personal and like a collec…
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@RosePuckey And the current debian testing kernel image vmlinuz-6.12.27-rt-amd6…
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@nixCraft when I worked at Convair, in '81, we had a massive mainframe that…
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@__Knut_ @nixCraft I think it's like 8333 punch cards?Anyway, pretty amazin…
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@nixCraft Bytes were much larger back then. About the size of a dime.
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@nixCraft Wow! People were so much smaller back then!
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@Turre @nixCraft Novice: Make disk drive walk a specified distanceMediocre: Mak…
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@nixCraft old drive from work.
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@RnDanger @nixCraft yes you are right. According to ChatGPT there are 131072 Pu…
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@__Knut_ @nixCraft I got my estimate by looking at the article for punch cards …
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@CatChucks @nixCraft I honestly did swither as to whether I actually needed to …
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@hetoug @nixCraft I had a chance to buy one of those cheap in the mid 1980'…
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@winkleink @nixCraft I’ve been considering using Minidisc as a storage medium…
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@nixCraft The drives holding those 10 MByte disks were the size of washing mach…
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@nixCraft wow, bits have gotten so much smaller in the last 50 years.
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@nixCraft Looks like a truck brake disk
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@davecykl @nixCraft You know, many young ones cannot believe in that history……
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@nixCraft I wonder how much of it only fitting 10MB was just due to the physica…
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@davecykl Remember the fun times in the computer lab, when you go to load your …
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@argv_minus_one I badly want to doodle on this pic.
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@nixcraft j'imagine pas la taille de la Game Cube…
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@nixCraft "I, Frodo Baggins, shall now attempt here, before the Council of…
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@nixCraft today you can fit it in the proc. L3 cache
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@nixCraft 10 mb is roughly 10 million bytes, so it's a lot
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@nixCraft @JezCaudle Alternative use was apparently as break disks on heavy loa…
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