[ale] TB in an external firewire drive

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Geoffrey wrote:

> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> > 5MB?  
> > 
> > C64 with an external 5.25" and a TAPE.  I remember getting REAL excited
> > when I could re-notch it and double the storage.  Then the 3.5" drives
> > let us REALLY up the storage on the BBS.
> > 
> > Before that was a sinclair but that didn't "really" have external
> > storage, just the carts.
> 
> Okay you bunch of old farts, how many of you ever USED a slide rule? 
> Required for my entry into EE at Lousiana Tech U...

<waving hand> Used a slide rule though the first quarter of PChem, except 
for quant (quantitative analysis). There we needed to use log tables and 
an electronic adding machine in order to retain sufficient sigfigs</waving 
hand>

First machine I owned was H89, 64kb ram, and 100kb hard sectored floppy 
(well, actually originally tape, but that was painful even then). Two 
years later, I had the opportunity to work (very part time) on a PDP-44, 
which included 2.5MB disk drives- which were a full 12 inches across. I'm 
not sure you want to consider those hard disks or not, the platters were 
removable, and weighed a bunch. My first personal hard disk of the modern 
form was 20MB, at just over $700.

> 
> 

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