[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Geoffrey]

List wrote:
> Here's IBM's page on the device which includes a pretty good picture of 
> the head assembly:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
> 
> Perhaps more startling is to think that the first available hard disks 
> for PC usage were 10MB.  I had a dual unit, from TallGrass Technologies 
> (amazingly, they are still in business), and let me tell you, having 
> 20MB of storage on a single little PC was the cat's ass.  We really did 
> not know what to do with that much storage.  We had mini-computers 
> running whole medium sized businesses with a single 9.6MB hard drive.
> 
> Can't hardly load a browser in that much storage these days...

You must be older then me and I'm older then dirt... ;)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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