[ale] TB in an external firewire drive

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Sep 1 11:23:25 EDT 2005


I _still_ have a NEC Starlett laptop that has no external drives. It has
32k of ram with 16k of rom applications. Data storage is with an audio
cassette drive. The keyboard is really nice, good feel and
responsiveness. 

let the old fart chest thumping begin....

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:00 -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 5MB?  
> 
> C64 with an external 5.25" and a TAPE.  I remember getting REAL excited
> when I could re-notch it and double the storage.  Then the 3.5" drives
> let us REALLY up the storage on the BBS.
> 
> Before that was a sinclair but that didn't "really" have external
> storage, just the carts.
> 
> 
> 
> Thus spake Greg Freemyer (greg.freemyer at gmail.com):
> 
> >    Just saw
> > 
> >    http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10451
> > 
> >    An external firewire/usb drive with 1 TB.  I assume it has 2x500GB drives
> >    internally.
> > 
> >    Truly amazing.......I remember my first hard drive, 5 MB (yes, for you
> >    youngsters, that's MB not GB) for $5K (IIRC).
> > 
> >    Greg
> >    --
> >    Greg Freemyer
> >    The Norcross Group
> >    Forensics for the 21st Century
> 
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> :wq!
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