hausdok Posted July 16, 2010 Report Share Posted July 16, 2010 Remember when a 1TB backup drive cost nearly $800 and was the size of a large dictionary? For those within range of a Fry's Electronics, they've got a Seegate Freeagent 1.5TB desktop backup on sale right now for $99.99. Automatic backup with encryption. Cheap. Item #6305611 http://www.frys.com ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 I'll just wait for the 1.2 Petabyte drive that's due out next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Moore Posted July 17, 2010 Report Share Posted July 17, 2010 Remember when a 1TB backup drive cost nearly $800 and was the size of a large dictionary? Heck, I remember my first job as a computer operator back in 1967. You could open man sized doors and walk through parts of it. It had 20Kb of memory! Just tape for data storage. A few years later the company switched to IBM (transistors instead of valves and a whopping 256Kb memory). It came with a bank of disc drives, each the size of a small washing machine. Supposedly each removable multi-level disc could hold 7mb of data. I'm not sure the word Gigabyte had been invented, but if it had, it was just a crazy dream. Click to Enlarge 13.05 KB Yep...stuff changes. This whole intertubes thingy is kinda neat too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antelespec Posted July 18, 2010 Report Share Posted July 18, 2010 My Commodore VIC20 still does a good job.... at what I'm not sure though. Stuff has come a long way. Imagine if everything was still on a cassette drive. Our software suppliers would send us updates in the mail, and we'd be happy about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resqman Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 Add me to the list of old computer geeks. First system was a Digital Equipment Corportation VAX 11-780. Roughly the size of two refrigerators for the CPU. Had three disk drives, each the size of a washing machine. It was housed in its own glass room in the lobby of the building so everyone could gawk at it. Next to it we had a DEC PDP 11-70. Black with purple highlights. Had 16 toggle switches on the front panel. You had to manually set the toggle switches to a specific sequence to get the system to boot. It also had 16 colored lights that blinked in certain seqeuences depending on which operating system was running. Those were the days of centralized computing. One huge computer shared by hundreds of people. Everyone had dumb terminals on their desk instead of PCs. Remember we had a series of intermittent system crashes for a week or so. We started pulling out boards to check stuff. A loose screw bounced out. It seems the loose screw would rattle around and short out stuff causing the system crashes. Another time we had to upgrade the system so we opened up the back doors and changing the wiring by litterally wrapping wire around various posts and runs the wires to other posts. None of that namby pamby board swapping. Software updates came on tapes. Reel to reel tapes. 1 inch thick and about the size of a record album. Click to Enlarge 15.1 KB Click to Enlarge 18.48 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kogel Posted July 19, 2010 Report Share Posted July 19, 2010 "Replacing a bad tube meant checking among ENIAC's 19,000 possibilities." (U.S. Army photo, from archives of the ARL Technical Library, courtesy of Mike Muuss; caption from Martin H. Weik, "The ENIAC Story"). The heat from all those tubes must have been stifling. 1947. I'm a newbie myself, first bought a used PC in '92. I think it had a 1.2 Meg HD. Click to Enlarge 16.23 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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