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The Four Hundred--The Disk Drive at 50: Still Spinning

Steve

jowl

My first hard drive was 60mb - although it was 2.5" and cost £200

I'm sure some of the geeks on here can beat that!!

mykp

My first hard drive was 5meg!!!! cant remember but I think it was made by Seagate and was 5 1/4 inches high!

I found a Conner hard drive a few weeks ago while cleaning out some boxes in the loft, which was 1 gig!

Hanslow

I bought a 52MB hard drive for my Amiga back in about 91. Admittedly it had 2MB of extra memory in as well, but set me back £486

jowl

Sorry, meant 60mb!

It too was for my Amiga 1200. I later Upgraded to a 240mb one.....and thought it was HUGE!

GaryK

I remember 10meg MFM drives in the old PC XTs.

jowl

In my last place, we found 4 x ~240mb SCSI hard disks. They were 5 1/4 inch full height jobs. We fitted them in a huge tower and used as a fileserver. When powered up, the lights dimmed and the whole thing vibrated like crazy.


Ah, what geeky fun

kernel

Yes of course we can 20MB drive for my Atari ST, mine for 720 quid (and of course 720 quid was worth a shed load more then than now)

douglasb

I remember fitting 20MB drives in PCs when I worked in a PC bild workshop (1987). In my first PC the 40MB drive had to be split into two partitions as DOS 3.3 would only address 33MB volumes.

FlightMan

Does anyone remember 8" floppy drives?

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

quite a few of my drives have been SMEG as well

supertouring

My first disk-drives : ICL Mainframes (included a pre-wash and spin cycle)