• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      5 days ago

      My dad had a 286 with a 40MB hard drive in it. When it spun up it sounded like a plane taking off. A few years later he had a 486 and got a 2gb Seagate hard drive. It was an unimaginable amount of space at the time.

      The computer industry in the 90s (and presumably the 80s, I just don’t remember it) we’re wild. Hardware would be completely obsolete every other year.

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      4 days ago

      Our first computer was a Macintosh Classic with a 40 MB SCSI hard disk. My first “own” computer had a 120 MB drive.

      I keep typoing TB as GB when talking about these huge drives, it’s just so weird how these massive capacities are just normal!

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      4 days ago

      I had a 20mb hard drive

      I had a 1gb hard drive that weighed like 20 kgs, some 40 odd pounds