Inspired by the following thread...

[Hyperblaze]

inspired by this thread...

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...6145&enterthread=y

How big was your first hard disk?

<-- 20 megs

 

[Kalvin00]

<---450 megs

 

[Cuda1447]

6 gigs

 

[n0cmonkey]

The firt one _I_ owned was 4GB.

10MB for the first computer my family owned.

 

[Mo0o]

I dont even remember now

 

[BMdoobieW]

My family's first computer, a Pionex 486sx 25mhz, had, I believe, a 170MB hard drive. This was in 1993.

 

[TwiceOver]

346mb. Intel 286 processor.

Not sure how big the hard drive was in the Apple IIe, that was probably smaller (not in physical size)

 

[Beau]

12 MB.
Then 420MB
Then 2GB
Then 10GB
Then 40GB
Then 250GB x 2

 

[Insane3D]

how big was your first hard disk

Ohh...the difference one letter makes...:shocked:

:laugh:

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Insane3D

how big was your first hard disk

Ohh...the difference one letter makes...:shocked:

:laugh:

rotfl.

thanks for bringing my mind in the gutter

 

[ElFenix]

probably 10 or 12 megs. not really sure. i know the next one was 20.

 

[Nikamichi]

how big was your first hard disk

9"

 

[Deeko]

80MB. 386SX 16MHz. 4MB RAM. booyah.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Nikamichi

how big was your first hard disk

9"

ok.....

 

[DaWhim]

I don't remember. 2gb the most. it was big enough to fit a win3.1 in it.

 

[Yolner]

12"

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Yolner
12"

i didn't know they made hard disks that tiny

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

I think it was 450mb.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver

Not sure how big the hard drive was in the Apple IIe, that was probably smaller (not in physical size)

No HD was ever inside a //e, there was 10MB 20MB, and 30MB 'Siders' out there...they were daisy chainable which was cool too, however, they were no faster than a floppy drive in access. Also in the mid 80's, the 10MB retailed for $700...my complete //e system with Grappler+, Apple DMP, dual drives, monitor, system saver, and a few other goodies was $2600 then.

The drives were wierd also that you had to have so many partitions (I think it was emulating a floppy somehow) you could also have all the operating systems installed and boot from them.

These were pretty big, like a 1/2 height shoebox in size.

 

[Spamela]

5 megabytes

 

[PoPPeR]

first computer we ever owned... i'm not really sure. I was 6 years old and it was a Tandy 1000 or something like that. Used those really big floppy disks, all I remember is playing a game called "President of the United States", some sort of trivia thing. First computer that I knew something... a compaq w/a 1.5 gig HD

 

[Spikesoldier]

1.58GB seagate medalist, which was pretty much unheard of at the time

i486DX2 66MHz
32mb (2x 16mb FPM SIMM's) also unheard of at the time
dos 6.22
trident VESA video, 256KB VRAM
POS soyo motherboard
VESA IDE/Floppy controller card
28.8K modem - unheard of
3.5" floppy, 5.25" floppy
2x SCSI cdrom
pro audio spectrum, with SCSI controller


$4000 iirc, but damn was that thing sweeet

edit: forgot to add sound card and cd rom

 

[shimsham]

10 gig

 

[moshquerade]

7"

 

[MaxDSP]

4.3 GB in a Packard Bell Platinum 3000 PC, back in '97 or '98 I believe