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Robbie · 12-21-2015, 11:36 PM

Hard disk in 1981:

MiamiBoyz · 12-22-2015, 12:02 AM

Just think what that cost was in today's money - the equivalent of $25,000 USD!

Holy Shit we have it good!

theking · 12-22-2015, 12:15 AM

I recall spending several hundred dollars for an external hard drive that I think only had four mega bytes of storage. My memory is a little vague about this as it was so many years ago. But yeah technology in all fields has come along way. What will this century produce?

theking · 12-22-2015, 12:45 AM

Someone once said that whatever man can imagin...given enough time man can do...and I think that there is alot of truth to that.

The problem is that there are many life changing events that are over due to happen and it is not a question of if they will happen but only a question of when they will happen...so time for man kind is a concern.

pornguy · 12-22-2015, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by theking

Someone once said that whatever man can imagin...given enough time man can do...and I think that there is alot of truth to that.

The problem is that there are many life changing events that are over due to happen and it is not a question of if they will happen but only a question of when they will happen...so time for man kind is a concern.

I think a lot of those life changing events may have already happened in some ways. Some of the discoveries we have waited for but have not seen.

Itchy · 12-22-2015, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Robbie

Hard disk in 1981:

CarlosTheGaucho · 12-22-2015, 12:28 PM

Yeah, and HDD / backup solutions is still one of the businesses with very stable future. As the amount of data is ever increasing.

Seems like Western Digital for example is doing just fine:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/wdc/revenue-eps

baddog · 12-22-2015, 12:35 PM

My first IBM compatible desktop cost over $3k and came with a 120 meg HDD, 2 meg of RAM, a black & white monitor and a color dot matrix printer

marcop · 12-22-2015, 12:36 PM

They were the days... I wrote whole systems in Microsoft Cobol for use on IBM PC's, back in 1982-5. The computers cost about $6k as I remember, and had dual floppy disk drives (each disk could store 360k of data). When the first PC-XT came out with an onboard 10MB hard drive, it seemed like a huge leap forward.

Colmike9 · 12-22-2015, 12:44 PM

theking · 12-22-2015, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pornguy

I think a lot of those life changing events may have already happened in some ways. Some of the discoveries we have waited for but have not seen.

I am talking about super volcanoes such as Yellow Stone...asteroids hitting the earth...catastrophic life changing events.

Rochard · 12-22-2015, 01:25 PM

I remember when hard drive space was so small... I used to store images for web design on floppy disks.

Colmike9 · 12-22-2015, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

I remember when hard drive space was so small... I used to store images for web design on floppy disks.

I bought Street Fighter 2 when I was little and it came on 8 floppy disks.

ruff · 12-22-2015, 09:47 PM

What the fuck was a harddrive? I thought floppy disks were the end-all. They beat tape all to hell. HDD are over, it's all SSD now.

2MuchMark · 12-22-2015, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by ruff

What the fuck was a harddrive? I thought floppy disks were the end-all. They beat tape all to hell. HDD are over, it's all SSD now.

Very true. As our office hard drive's age, we are replacing them with SDD's. Love them.

Rochard · 12-22-2015, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Colmike7

I bought Street Fighter 2 when I was little and it came on 8 floppy disks.

Yea, I remember those days: "Insert disk three to continue installation".

rayadp05 · 12-22-2015, 10:44 PM

Wow. That's pretty crazy.

Maqua · 12-22-2015, 11:03 PM

56k modem, no videos, pc's had 128k of ram, if you wanted 500k of ram that was a couple hundred bucks or more, hosting plans started off in MB of transfer and we paid a couple grand for 5-700mb for traffic, hehe the old days

kane · 12-22-2015, 11:10 PM

I worked at Radio Shack in 1989 and 1990. We sold 20 MB hard drives for about $800. We had a cell phone that was huge and cost $1400. The phone service cost about $50 a month plus 35 cents per minute.

j3rkules · 12-23-2015, 04:20 AM

These good old days...

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