[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[List]

Yeah, I was there when they invented fire.  Loaned 'em my o-scope so 
they could debug it.

Geoffrey wrote:
> List wrote:
>> Here's IBM's page on the device which includes a pretty good picture 
>> of the head assembly:
>> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
>>
>> Perhaps more startling is to think that the first available hard 
>> disks for PC usage were 10MB.  I had a dual unit, from TallGrass 
>> Technologies (amazingly, they are still in business), and let me tell 
>> you, having 20MB of storage on a single little PC was the cat's ass.  
>> We really did not know what to do with that much storage.  We had 
>> mini-computers running whole medium sized businesses with a single 
>> 9.6MB hard drive.
>>
>> Can't hardly load a browser in that much storage these days...
>
> You must be older then me and I'm older then dirt... ;)
>