a small computer joke becomes reality.

[scoobert]

about 8 months ago i got a 1TB hard drive. wait, let me back up...

in 1999 i built my first gaming PC, amd athalon thunderbird 1300MHZ,
full 2 gigs of ram, and a 20 gig hard drive. i had that same 20 gig hard drive in 2006, not even half full; however in a new watercooled, overclocked, quad core beast. i swore i would never need a larger drive. even when i had my canon 20D i only got a second 200gig drive to hold the photos.

now my latest system is rockin. for my primary i have a raptor 10K drive. and 8 months ago i got a 1TB internal and a 500GIG external (on my car computer now) and a 300gig in the car computer. they are all almost filled.

as a joke i named my 1tb hard drive:

i am now waiting for april for my first 3TB drive. anyone else find this hard drive tech to be going faster then we thought we would ever need?

i quote bill gates, "640K ought to be enough for anybody"(he claims to have never said this)

 

[bigredv10]

10 years ago I had a 12gig hard drive..wow! now my newer POS computer came with 160gig soo hahaha Terminator?

 

[scoobert]

when i worked in a computer shop at 15 in 1996 266mhz pentium 2 was the shit, and dvd players were just getting started. i remember we built a $2500 system and played space jam on it as a display.

 

[FerrariTruck]

space jam, that was a good movie

 

[Da1Chief]

I go back to the "Trash" 80, Comadore 64, Singer Sinclare, VIC 20. The first IBM compatable was the Zenith Z-248 it had 80286 8mhz, processor, 512K Base RAM with a 640K expansion Ram board, 20MB hard drive and two 360K Floppy Drives. It was the Biggest Baddest System in 2 States.... Ranges from 30-25 years ago...

 

[scoobert]

first PC was a tandy 1000RL diskbased system. cost my folks about 600 bucks at radio shack. it was a disk based operating system called deskmate.

they would not spring for the 20MB hard drive due to the fact it was too expensive.
it did however have upgraded ram at 768kb 8mhz 8088 processor, 720K 3.5" floppy drive. CGA monitor was big stuff too. i could play frogger, pack man ECT.

 

[viperhauler]

my first was a tandy 1000 TL....go figure....

the bottom line....

i don't think it will ever stop...

 

[scoobert]

my first was a tandy 1000 TL....go figure....

the bottom line....

i don't think it will ever stop...

it will not April will be 3 tb, in two years we will have 10tb drives.

 

[viperhauler]

i just have no desire to store that much information....