I remember having a 30MB full height 5.25" HDD in my IBM AT PC back in the 80's.

Yeah... in graduate school in the '80s, I had a clone shop put new PC together for me. I asked for a 40MB hard drive and they guy exclaimed, "Good God! What do you need all that space for?" I explained that I was starting to play around with a half-page hand scanner and that some of the files were 3 and 4 KB big. My dad, who had worked on the Apollo project, came to visit. When he saw the PC, he said, "What's that?" When I explained that it had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive, he thought a moment and replied that this was hundreds of times more computing power than they had in the command module. Of course, my first time through college, PCs hadn't been thought of and I didn't even have an electric typewriter...Rob

My first computer had 256 bytes of memory- yes, bytes. Now they advertise using only 17 of these for a petabyte of storage. ( First was a Cosmac Elf II , second had 64k memory with 5 1/4" 115k discs).

Yup, I remember saying 'Why would you want a 30 Meg drive'Yesterday I videoed a waterbomber skimming the lake.25 seconds = 60 Megs

my first computer was a Sinclair kit, i put together ,it had 1kb of ram, and used audio cassetts for program storage i did a hardware hack found in "micro computer" magazine to double the ram to 2kbdrove 60 miles one way to get the parts,

MrWizard wrote:my first computer was a Sinclair kit, i put together ,it had 1kb of ram, and used audio cassetts for program storage i did a hardware hack found in "micro computer" magazine to double the ram to 2kbdrove 60 miles one way to get the parts,That was my first computer at home. My dad wouldn't buy the 16K RAM module for it because it was too expensive ($150!).I also used Commodore PET computers in school...

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Chris_Bryant
Explorer II
Aug 10, 2016
My first computer had 256 bytes of memory- yes, bytes. Now they advertise using only 17 of these for a petabyte of storage.

( First was a Cosmac Elf II , second had 64k memory with 5 1/4" 115k discs).
Second_Chance
Explorer II
Aug 10, 2016
Yeah... in graduate school in the '80s, I had a clone shop put new PC together for me. I asked for a 40MB hard drive and they guy exclaimed, "Good God! What do you need all that space for?" I explained that I was starting to play around with a half-page hand scanner and that some of the files were 3 and 4 KB big. My dad, who had worked on the Apollo project, came to visit. When he saw the PC, he said, "What's that?" When I explained that it had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive, he thought a moment and replied that this was hundreds of times more computing power than they had in the command module. Of course, my first time through college, PCs hadn't been thought of and I didn't even have an electric typewriter...

Rob

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