Pretty old hard drives! 170mb + 631mb!

[Rreyes097]

Just wanted to show these old guys to everyone. One is from 1996. The other Im not sure. Too bad there weren't collectors for these.

 

[stella polaris]

I have one 20 mb ( from PS-2) and one 60 mb ( unknown origen)

 

[andu]

Oh, i have quite the collection of old hard drives for scrapping, lowest i got are few 2.1 GB. I will share pics later with my scrap, feels nice to have people that likes these things.

Edit: I find funny the battery waiting to get dissasembled while it says "do not disassemble"
I have a few more hdd's like the one in the mid but i got no idea of it's capacity.

 

[stella polaris]

Oh, i have quite the collection of old hard drives for scrapping, lowest i got are few 2.1 GB. I will share pics later with my scrap, feels nice to have people that likes these things.

Edit: I find funny the battery waiting to get dissasembled while it says "do not disassemble"
I have a few more hdd's like the one in the mid but i got no idea of it's capacity.

My first computer (Pentium 60ghz) costed me more than a month salary and had a whopping 1GB harddisk. Now people see more modern harddisks as old and worth to collect. Kind of sucks to get so old..

 

[Yggdrasil]

My first computer (Pentium 60ghz) costed me more than a month salary and had a whopping 1GB harddisk. Now people see more modern harddisks as old and worth to collect. Kind of sucks to get so old..

I guess you meant 66MHz, Mine was 50MHz

 

[stella polaris]

I guess you meant 66MHz, Mine was 50MHz

So I had a better and more modern than you.....

Tried to give it away a number of years ago, to a 10 year old girl. She did not want the old Sh*t as she said. The inflation in electronics is extreme. So i did trow it away. Today i realise it was a pentium in it.

 

[Yggdrasil]

So I had a better and more modern than you.....

Tried to give it away a number of years ago, to a 10 year old girl. She did not want the old Sh*t as she said. The inflation in electronics is extreme. So i did trow it away. Today i realise it was a pentium in it.

Well, mine was a 486 DX4 and a whopping 528Mb HD only partly partitioned since Win 3.11 did not support bigger partitions than 3-400Mb at the time
Those were the days

 

[FrugalRefiner]

You guys are funny! My first was an 80286 running at 12 Mhz, with a whopping 40 MB drive. It cost over $2,000 and was pretty much top of the line. I'm old at 68 years. Now you know why I'm so cranky sometimes.

Dave

 

[Yggdrasil]

You guys are funny! My first was an 80286 running at 12 Mhz, with a whopping 40 MB drive. It cost over $2,000 and was pretty much top of the line. I'm old at 68 years. Now you know why I'm so cranky sometimes.

Dave

I'm getting there too
I was past 30 when I bought my first computer, so I had a late start

 

[QMFB]

You have any cellphones from that era to get rid of, and I'm your huckleberry. Those suckers are usually loaded with gold !

Oh, i have quite the collection of old hard drives for scrapping, lowest i got are few 2.1 GB. I will share pics later with my scrap, feels nice to have people that likes these things.

Edit: I find funny the battery waiting to get dissasembled while it says "do not disassemble"
I have a few more hdd's like the one in the mid but i got no idea of it's capacity.

 

[actionmanmelb]

I have kept every phone I ever had from a Motorola Brick through to iphones x 5.
Just waiting for gold to go to $4000!

 

[nwinther]

Amiga 500 with 512kb of ram.
Later upgraded with a 120MB HDD and another 2 MB of ram. They cost something like 350$.

 

[stella polaris]

You guys are funny! My first was an 80286 running at 12 Mhz, with a whopping 40 MB drive. It cost over $2,000 and was pretty much top of the line. I'm old at 68 years. Now you know why I'm so cranky sometimes.

Dave

You, Yankees, always have to be best.

How did your friends react to your new computer? I remember mine looked at it as it was the holy grail. You got yours early in the game, when few had a pc, so you must have stuck out.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I got mine as an adjunct to work. It was a little faster and had a little bigger hard drive. It allowed me to work on projects at home in the evenings since several of us had to share the work computer.

I went high end thinking it would serve me for many years. I never made that mistake again. After that, I would buy last year's technology at a bargain knowing it would all be outdated sooner than later.

Dave

 

[Shark]

Sounds like Dave may recall the days when 8meg memory was $1000.

 

[FrugalRefiner]

I remember the days when PCs couldn't access more than 640K.

 

[eaglekeeper]

There maybe some here that have no idea what this is.... Those were the days when you could watch the picture you clicked appear on the screen... like someone unrolling an old scroll,...and it always seemed to paused at the best parts, I don't miss those days.

 

[stella polaris]

I remember the days when PCs couldn't access more than 640K.

A youngster, of today, would not survive on 650k

 

[Yggdrasil]

A youngster, of today, would not survive on 650k

There was this guy, I think he was German, he wrote a functional 3D game in assembly and it was 320k if my memory serves me right.
Many things that is possible is not done because computer storage is too cheap today to mind the bloating process.

 

[Martijn]

You guys are funny! My first was an 80286 running at 12 Mhz, with a whopping 40 MB drive. It cost over $2,000 and was pretty much top of the line. I'm old at 68 years. Now you know why I'm so cranky sometimes.

Dave

Did yours also have the turbo button from 8 to 12Mhz?
Man, this thread takes me back