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AK100

Registered: Nov 2004
Posts: 1019

05-18-12 07:29 PM

Anyone remember their first computer's hard drive capacity?

Mine was 20MB on a Toshiba laptop back in 1989. I had the option of buying the more expensive 40MB version but 20MB did me just fine for a few years

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rallydog

Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 197

05-18-12 08:11 PM

Quote from AK100:

Anyone remember their first computer's hard drive capacity?

Mine was 20MB on a Toshiba laptop back in 1989. I had the option of buying the more expensive 40MB version but 20MB did me just fine for a few years

Mine was a compaq 286. It came with a 20mb and I was told that it would take a life time to fill the disk. Uh hu.

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Div_Arb

Registered: May 2005
Posts: 706

05-18-12 08:17 PM

I still have dual 360 KB 5.25-inch floppy drives on my PC Junior. Am I behind the times?

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danielc1

Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 246

05-18-12 08:22 PM

I use a tandy 1000 with a tapedeck to upload my charts... It takes about 5 minutes for one eod chart to get on my screen...

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WinstonTJ

Registered: Jan 2009
Posts: 1947

05-18-12 08:50 PM

I'm selling a 10TB dual Xeon box for roughly $2k. Thats pretty damm good IMO for 10TB and a backtest engine running on ssd.

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Bolimomo

Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 2262

05-19-12 08:02 AM

Quote from AK100:

Anyone remember their first computer's hard drive capacity?

What is a "hard drive"?

Mine was an Apple II+, with 48K RAM. That is "K" as in Kay, not Mag. And a 5 1/4-inch floppy drive (wow!). You boot from ROM, and load your app from floppies.

10MB hard disk: full height 5 1/4-inch, (from IBM a few years later) was a huge wow for us.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&...29,r:2,s:0,i:78

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