• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

      My dad had a 286 with a 40MB hard drive in it. When it spun up it sounded like a plane taking off. A few years later he had a 486 and got a 2gb Seagate hard drive. It was an unimaginable amount of space at the time.

      The computer industry in the 90s (and presumably the 80s, I just don’t remember it) we’re wild. Hardware would be completely obsolete every other year.

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        My 286er had 2MB RAM and no hard drive, just two 5.25" floppy drives. One to boot the OS from, the other for storage and software.

        I upgrade it to 4 MB RAM and bought a 20 MB hard drive, moved EVERY piece of software I had onto it, and it was like 20% full. I sincerely thought that should last forever.

        Today I casually send my wife a 10 sec video from the supermarket to choose which yoghurt she wants and that takes up about 25 MB.

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          I had 128KB of RAM and I loaded my games from tape. And most of those only used 48KB of it.

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            6 days ago

            Yeah we still had an old 8086 with tape drive and all from my dad’s university times around, but I never acutely used that one.

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      5 days ago

      I had a 20mb hard drive

      I had a 1gb hard drive that weighed like 20 kgs, some 40 odd pounds

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      5 days ago

      Our first computer was a Macintosh Classic with a 40 MB SCSI hard disk. My first “own” computer had a 120 MB drive.

      I keep typoing TB as GB when talking about these huge drives, it’s just so weird how these massive capacities are just normal!