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A hard to shift drive!

As you can see, it was also a portable drive.

I remember when I thought 10MB was Huge and wanted one for my C64, even though by that point the platform was long dead (early-mid 90's)

My first hard drive incidentally was 10MB though, and that sucker was huge. Took up two 5.25" bays in my classic IBM 286's chassis (you know the one)

But it loaded up Math Blasters pretty fast!

I know I'm kinda late...didn't really use / care about computers before 16GB drives were out.

10Mb !! - I only dreamed of that once First drives I worked with were 4Mb and about the size of a large washing machine, with removable platter packs. The system was an ICL 1904 and we had the luxury of 3 disc drives as I was working for the manufacturer. As in top photo here: http://www.couperus.org/OldComputers/ICT1905.htm

My first personal home machine had a separate 20Mb drive - loads of space! (HP 150 circa 1984) - was still working perfectly when I fired it up about 2 years ago, after sitting at the back of the garage for over a decade. Sold it on ebay to a very happy collector.

The thing is, if looked after, that old hard drive would outlast any thumbdrive of today, due to the limited write cycles and breakdown nature of thumbdrives. So yes we've got better tech now, but it's cheaper and unreliable tech. Just like today's cars are cheap plastic and aluminum compared to the good old metal muscle cars of the '60s.

idle wrote:A hard to shift drive!

haha

I think, the biggest Harddrive is the one from Google:

ts-soft wrote:I think, the biggest Harddrive is the one from Google:

hehe nice 1 Thomas so that's what the magnetic iron core of the Earth is used for! I hope Google have run checkdisk I think there's a bad sector on the 21st of December that may cause the Earth to crash