Two old but new hard disks (1 Viewer)

[olley]

Came across these in my garage clear out, doubt anyone is interested but before I bin them.
160gig HD and a 80Gig HD.
The 160gig is brand new still sealed in its silvered plastic wrapper.
The 80gig looks new, is still in its plastic wrapper but the plastic wrapper has been opened. Both around 2009 vintage
A small donation to Alzheimer's plus postage.

 

[hilldweller]

I take it they were stored next to your flint sharpening tool and your bow and arrow.

 

[Jaws]

At least they are IDE and not RLL or MFM... you can get a lot of videos on an 80 or 160 gig drive, and enough music see out the NEXT millennium !!!!

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[TheBig1]

whack them in a cheap enclosure and you have external media drives. ideal for keeping in the van and playing through a tv

 

[olley]

They're sitting on top of the bin.

 

[daveandsan]

Came across these in my garage clear out, doubt anyone is interested but before I bin them.
160gig HD and a 80Gig HD.
The 160gig is brand new still sealed in its silvered plastic wrapper.
The 80gig looks new, is still in its plastic wrapper but the plastic wrapper has been opened. Both around 2009 vintage
A small donation to Alzheimer's plus postage.
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Just what you need to store your photos on @Debs

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[TheBig1]

Just what you need to store your photos on @Debs

from personal experience, save memories like photos on multiple devices as hard disks can and do fail

 

[daveandsan]

from personal experience, save memories like photos on multiple devices as hard disks can and do fail

Yes appreciate that, that's why all my photos are backed up twice.

 

[Robin McHood]

One of the early computers I worked on had an 8MB HD stack and we thought that was the business. I know it was a stack as periodically I had to take it out and dust the platters, 4 of them each about 2 feet across as I recall....

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[TheCaller]

The first computer I was involved with that had a hard disk was a Cromenco running CP/M & I seem to remember it had a 4MB Winchester disk. As all the previous machines had managed perfectly well with twin 360k floppies, we wondered how anyone would ever fill it!

The next milestone was when Windows alone occupied 4MB. I'm not sure what a clean install of Windows needs now, but it'll be well in excess of 4GB & any system that's been running a while will be well into double figures of GB.

Eually, it doesn't seem long since a picture took several minutes to download & any idea of streaming video over the internet was laughed at as a ridiculous idea. Now we stand in the middle of a field & stream video to our phones - even Mr Spock would raise an eyebrow.

whack them in a cheap enclosure and you have external media drives.

Yep - that's what I did some time ago with a spare 160GB disk I had knocking about.

 

[olley]

Another little technological gem from my garage clearout @hilldweller an Amstrad 1512 portable! Complete with Dos 3.3 Ability and Word 4.
I bought this new around 1990, and used to drag this around clients houses when I was designing kitchens. Its fine for 2D views but waiting for 3D to show the clients usually meant I had to let myself out after they had gone to bed.

And it still works, a testament to Amstrad build quality. One of the first portable? (luggable was more like it) PC's although if you put the ten "D" batteries in it became sack barrowable.

 

[tonka]

A bit off subject BUT if anyone is in need of cheap HDD for storage use...
Sky HD receivers often sell cheap now around £10-15.. Some like the DRX890 model have a SATA 500gb HDD fitted..
Sell the remote and strip the box.. Put the HDD into a caddy..

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[Lenny HB]

At least they are IDE and not RLL or MFM... you can get a lot of videos on an 80 or 160 gig drive, and enough music see out the NEXT millennium !!!!

IDE, haven't seen a PC with IDE ports for about 10 years.

 

[Jaws]

IDE, haven't seen a PC with IDE ports for about 10 years.

Just buy an external drive case cheap as chips with an ide to usb board in it

 

[hilldweller]

Another little technological gem from my garage clearout @hilldweller an Amstrad 1512 portable!

I remember it well. My first LCD laptop. Dog slow and I got rid of it very quickly.

I think you are even better at hoarding then I am.

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[Robin McHood]

The first computer I was involved with that had a hard disk was a Cromenco running CP/M & ?....

Mine was a DEC PDP8, no HD that had to be programmed using a row of buttons on the front panel to input lines of code in binary. Once programmed it would give us a GPS position about once every 12 hours or so, except when we really needed it of course... usually approaching the Bahama Banks with 300,000 tons of Libyan crude on board, bad visibility and the potential for polluting the whole of the US eastern seaboard if we got it wrong.... History confirms we didn't.....

The one with the HD platters was an IBM system 7 incorporated into a novel adaptive autopilot and target tracking system that was booted using a Phillips cassette recorder and when the ship was scrapped, the whole thing had to be returned to Boca Raton as it contained DoD (US) programming they didnt want the Russki's getting their hands on.... 16 bit and 32k of semiconductor memory... Talk about tomorrows world!! Warned our navigators one day these things would be doing their job and they laughed, how they laughed....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/7