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Post #Aua65ahknrChP7P1NY by [email protected] |
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10 MB hard disk from the 1960's |
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Post #Aua6JW2UwhZozMkH1k by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft And you had to flip it over to access the other 5 MB… /s |
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Post #Aua6rhhu4Uln1PPlFw by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft expensive Storage for important work which we nowadays use for one or… |
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Post #Aua7C6IoKvL55uP5Gq by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Looks like a clutch pressure plate or flywheel😉 |
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Post #Aua7IsZJnS6GWjMCJM by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft in the early '70-ies I used disks like those, but a little smalle… |
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Post #Aua7L1IEKYSQAFNvdo by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft ...this corresponds to approx. 125 punched cards |
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Post #Aua7Mzpmj1mwDe1Rse by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft “And this, boys and girls, is how we played video games back in the… |
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Post #AuaAAGs2NBtP9chROS by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Pulling this disk to take a picture is what caused one of the Newark … |
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Post #AuaBUpleR7P98C57dQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft everyone please stick to text-only comments as we're running out … |
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Post #AuaBn0IC2mU6zBy0ga by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Seeing that, it's not so hard to imagine the legend about operato… |
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Post #AuaC3QOmkUdSaQseIK by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] a 10mb hdd from 1960 or a laserdisc. |
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Post #AuaC3bFcOuq4FBfz28 by [email protected] |
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@prefec2naturally. cats are important, after all :3@nixCraft |
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Post #AuaCiIP5NaXBfAVfZQ by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft 100mb Winchester drive that was probably the first ever hard drive I … |
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Post #AuaFDKU3tXnT04lMo4 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I remember one of those. Had to run in a clean air cooled room, wit… |
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Post #AuaHDG24e36j6QlVzM by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft remember walking the drive? |
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Post #AuaL5EauVXDk8tUPs8 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft They just don't make 'em like they used to! Sad!! 🤓 |
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Post #AuaLYTbzkgLD7GwNlo by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft *slaps hard disk* this baby will store an entire desktop background |
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Post #AuaNVejCALC4dF5iYi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft - WOW; Now that is huge. |
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Post #AuaNYgmuxlsTtEHLSi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft You could *almost* fit a React web app on that thing! |
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Post #AuaNc6qoWCxdahjRy4 by [email protected] |
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@waglagon 😂 @nixCraft |
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Post #AuaNvSOGev95tfbb4i by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft back then, we counted every blessed bit |
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Post #AuaQWL5ixYHbske8Y4 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraftYeah, many of them can be used to install discord and talk about it. |
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Post #AuaRVlluNQfoIJfaz2 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AuaSNFe62KjYILWBBQ by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] wow, MB?I'm just looking at my downloads folder a… |
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Post #AuaScOy5erfFYH5uDI by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I remember when I had ultra fast 3.5" 4GB SCSI HDD drive back ar… |
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Post #AuaSyqXdozbrRLQRFI by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Next largest advancement will be unification of working memory and st… |
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Post #AuaTOtEKRqlZJ7oJrU by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Damn, I remember those! 😉 And Fastrand drums! 😉 |
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Post #AuaTvWhhDnHx026q00 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Holy Shit, That hard drive platter looks like a Pho-king sawblade! |
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Post #AuaWjFi8sGaKgW9maG by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Gives a whole new insight to the term “hard drive”. |
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Post #AuaWp9pDfdiWASHbQe by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I've had spare tires for cars that were smaller than that. |
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Post #AuaYSscX9k4wLVr1mq by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft .. not to talk about the keyboard! 🥶 #justjoking |
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Post #AuaakJMnASsC82vmC0 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft all my life I thought that was a hat intended to be worn when officia… |
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Post #AuabrSXfYHpmZDzUpc by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AuadpgiK5f4TqjG0Wm by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I can only imagine what the seek time was on that. |
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Post #AuadsqGn1BVUM5smp6 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft STOP TOUCHING THE SURFACELook, I *KNOW* itt doesn't matter any mo… |
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Post #Auag593BDb3Zz9VkP2 by [email protected] |
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Post #AuahvXQ5xRKSZwmBjk by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft I’m gonna tell my kids this in an LP |
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Post #AuaivPcp2QnGMGEW92 by [email protected] |
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@EdCates @nixCraft top speed of 40 MB/s? |
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Post #AuajFKQo3fzu2d6rNQ by [email protected] |
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@davecykl @nixCraft No, you didn't. The reading heads were located on both … |
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Post #AuajHWctgkTgRVoR6W by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft update the disk to using modern techniques, so it stores infinitely m… |
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Post #AuajU4A4pbhLvQJPCC by [email protected] |
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@tarknassus @nixCraft I loved having floppies. Felt personal and like a collec… |
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Post #AuajV131tS7MYeT6u0 by [email protected] |
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@RosePuckey And the current debian testing kernel image vmlinuz-6.12.27-rt-amd6… |
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Post #AuakXzVgASOybwqrmi by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft when I worked at Convair, in '81, we had a massive mainframe that… |
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Post #AualxTbDX7g57p9sSO by [email protected] |
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@__Knut_ @nixCraft I think it's like 8333 punch cards?Anyway, pretty amazin… |
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Post #AuamJIQLlNuipvTnrU by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Bytes were much larger back then. About the size of a dime. |
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Post #AuamOYYnCGN2KVw9HU by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft Wow! People were so much smaller back then! |
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Post #AuamV6C93ZUcNqSnLc by [email protected] |
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@Turre @nixCraft Novice: Make disk drive walk a specified distanceMediocre: Mak… |
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Post #AuarYr9bQ75ifDswdc by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft old drive from work. |
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Post #Auarwe29qsYUvGkKJc by [email protected] |
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@RnDanger @nixCraft yes you are right. According to ChatGPT there are 131072 Pu… |
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Post #Auarwe8tRpwXG9thoW by [email protected] |
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@__Knut_ @nixCraft I got my estimate by looking at the article for punch cards … |
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Post #AuauRn3UYm41muLiLY by [email protected] |
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@CatChucks @nixCraft I honestly did swither as to whether I actually needed to … |
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Post #AuauZPREFfVOrD5KsK by [email protected] |
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@hetoug @nixCraft I had a chance to buy one of those cheap in the mid 1980'… |
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Post #AuaujdiA2VlG1JsoHw by [email protected] |
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@winkleink @nixCraft I’ve been considering using Minidisc as a storage medium… |
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Post #Auavqn8dULCPEsEzEu by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft The drives holding those 10 MByte disks were the size of washing mach… |
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Post #Aub2XMOHPWzASYEuau by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft wow, bits have gotten so much smaller in the last 50 years. |
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Post #Aub5VGoPTqkwRQ9mJk by [email protected] |
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@davecykl @nixCraft You know, many young ones cannot believe in that history…… |
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Post #AubLZN0py4Dg62wjqa by [email protected] |
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@davecykl Remember the fun times in the computer lab, when you go to load your … |
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Post #AubXDsjKYpDPXvHHns by [email protected] |
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@argv_minus_one I badly want to doodle on this pic. |
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Post #Auc10Dzfhh8k44KDbs by [email protected] |
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@nixcraft j'imagine pas la taille de la Game Cube… |
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Post #Auc9l7YYFrd5LKVqW8 by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft "I, Frodo Baggins, shall now attempt here, before the Council of… |
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Post #AudzoUiry7LUpsEEkK by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft 10 mb is roughly 10 million bytes, so it's a lot |
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Post #AueClquOKBbWBAgjmy by [email protected] |
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@nixCraft @JezCaudle Alternative use was apparently as break disks on heavy loa… |
