What's the SMALLEST (capacity) hard drive you've ever used?

[Adul]

in a comp 100 mb

but I had comps without HD and used dual floppies instead.

 

[bigredguy]

20-30 megs maybe, was a long time ago

 

[HansXP]

<< Anyone here use the old 8&quot; floppies? >>



Yep, my dad still has a big old stack of them sitting around. No way to read them anymore, tho.

 

[zimu]

15 MB on an 88 machine, monochrome monitor... laptop too!

 

[AznMaverick]

200 MB, iwas pretty sure back then that i wouldn't fill the whole thing up...now i have a 40 and i'm filling 1/2 up with just programs...

 

[RichieZ]

356MB, then I bought a 1GB HD for a whopping $300. Last week I bought a 60GB 7200 RPM for $125 after MIR

 

[Electric Amish]

20mb on an 8088.

amish

 

[Athlex]

My first IBM PC didn't even have a hard disk. Just two full-height 5 1/4&quot; floppy drives. After that I was using an IBM XT with a full height floppy and a full height 5 1/4&quot; 10 megabyte hard disk. After that, the hard disk was replaced so I could add a 720k floppy drive and a 20 meg MFM Connor.

 

[AppleTalking]

A 20MB hard drive on an old Mac II+. Have you ever seen this machine? It's about twice as wide as a normal desktop machine. I mean, the thing could have two monitors sitting on top of it without any problem!! I think it had like 8 or 9 expansion slots or something. Here's a drawing for you visual people:

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Nick

 

[huanaku]

*my* first hard drive was about 100 megs. Earlier, we had one that was less than 10, but I don't remember the exact size.

 

[erub]

80 meg on an 386

 

[GhettoFob]

1.6 gig on a P100

 

[AncientPC]

0 - no harddrive or
5mb . . .

 

[Zab]

20mb for an apple2 I think

 

[spyordie007]

ahh, well we cannot count my time running the old 8086 that had no hard drive, so we must go forward to the times when I had computers that had hard drives...
I was probably in Jr. High and my father got himself a new 386/20 I believe and handed me down his 386/16 (i think). As far as I can recall that had a 40MB drive, and that, compared to those 720kb 5.25&quot; was heaven in a box.

 

[Double Trouble]

<<alley cat>>

Wow, that brings back memories! I'd completely forgotten about that one.

Anyone else remember when you could buy a big thick magazine that would have games in there in code on the pages? You would type in all the code from 50 or more pages into your computer, save the file to the floppy or casette recorder, and then you could play it. Of course, the odds of you actually typing 50 pages of code into the system without a single typo are virtually non-existent, so you'd always end up with some program that would start and about 5 minutes later go &quot;Beep. Syntax Error in 548&quot;. Aaaaaaargh! :|

Anyone remember the game &quot;jumpjet&quot;?? That was a great one too!

 

[Bignate603]

i used a 8086 with dual floppies, that was a big deal at the time. The first real hard drive I used was much later, a 124 meg job on a 386.

 

[Sacotool]

I had a 32meg harddrive on my old 8088 4.77mhz (8mhz w/turbo on) machine, I also had AlleyCat and PrintShop, lol!

 

[cmv]

40 meg, upgraded to 100mb IBM drive from Best Buy for $99 (hot deal back then!).

 

[snut]

500 mb

 

[kami]

540meg

my computer before that didn't have a hard drive, but it did have a floppy that weighs about 10 pounds.

 

[acbimmer]

800MB on my ghetto box 486

 

[SSP]

Hmm, some of you guys dont know the meaning of &quot;hard drive&quot;. Floppy... pff...


40Megs here.

 

[BCYL]

I think it was a 30MB harddrive on a 386....

I still have a 500MB on a P75, and the largest harddrive I have is only 6.4GB

 

[Buddhist]

10mbs and 20mbs