A dumb article about hard drives

[BigGuynRusty]

Hollerith Cards.

BGnR

[laarree]

[quote BigGuynRusty]I guess both of you are fairly young, in the late 70's, and through most of the 1980's, the Hard Drive was constantly in the sights of RAM drives, Bubble Memory, all sorts of devices, that were less complex, and had no moving parts, and were much faster at reading, and writing data. HD size was growing very slowly, and prices were astronomical, 30 MegaBytes (YES, MegaBytes!), was $800! Then the big drive makers started making huge strides, 750 GigaByte drives are now under $500. For awhile it looked damn shaky for the Hard Drive, it has made a full recovery and is on steroids.

BGnR
Yeah I'm young, having learned how to program in Fortran with punch cards on an IBM 1130 in high school in 1970, and starting to use Mac SEs in 1987. I did some of my best artwork on a Mac IIci with 8 Mb of RAM and an 80 MB hard drive. ;-)

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote laarree]Yeah I'm young, having learned how to program in Fortran with punch cards on an IBM 1130 in high school in 1970, and starting to use Mac SEs in 1987. I did some of my best artwork on a Mac IIci with 8 Mb of RAM and an 80 MB hard drive. ;-)
Take it as a compliment, I was gonna put clueless! (-:

BGnR

[ka jowct]

I didn't know that anyone thought the hard drive was dead.

Bermoulli boxes and SyQuests seem to be pretty dead, though.

[mikebw]

I so wanted a bernoulli drive when I was younger, 230MB seemed like such a vast expanse of possibilities, at the time. I believe there were other capacities available too, smaller though.

[ka jowct]

Weren't there some 150MB Bernoullis? I wanted one in the worst way. Good thing I didn't succumb to temptation on that one.

[laarree]

I'm still waiting for those holographic drives to go with my
roll-up OLED display.