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

[Mungla]

My Comodore had no HD, only a 5.25" floppy. When cleaning recently, I came upon a couple of the old HD's from the 8086 days. Talk about heavy, they take a fork lift to move!

 

[Tiger]

20M MFM drive in my PC XT clone.

 

[Sundog]

No HDD, just 128KB of memory and the operating system took up a whopping 56 KB of that!

 

[MustPost]

I didn't know appleIIs had hard drives, the ones at my school just used floopys.

 

[zippy]

<< Of course, back then the whole operating system fit on a 120Kb floppy (and actually worked!). >>

LOL, now microsoft sports few hundred meg OSes that barely work.

Anyway, I think it was like 300MB's on a 3x86...it's in the basement collecting dust.

 

[jaydee]

1.44 MB floppy.

 

[HansHurt]

my 286 didn't even have a hd.
just 2 5.25 floppies. hehe


Yep, ditto.

 

[HansXP]

5 MB hard drive on a NorthStar Advantage (CP/M OS, before DOS)

It was divided into something like 16 partitions...

 

[Boogak]

I had an old 100 meg hard drive with a copy of the Win95 setup files that I used to setup new computers.

 

[prontospyder]

850MB on a P75.

 

[nosliw]

First HD was a 10 meg for a Macintosh. A hard drive was such a LUXURY. Prior it was all floppy shuffling (5.25&quot- Back when floppies were really floppy.

Anyone here use the old 8&quot; floppies?

 

[heat23]

40 meg on my 8088

 

[JonnyBlaze]

20mb on a leading edge 8086 8mhz

stacker was great! (jk)

JB

 

[YisSerL]

2 20MB Seagate on a 286.
Those things are huge and noisy....

 

[atomicbomberman]

170mb in my IBM PS/2 486sx 25mhz computer.. that's the first computer that our family own really.

 

[sharkeeper]

Loading chess.com from phone mate cassette...

2 bytes of 3006 bytes...55 seconds remaining...

That's worse than Chinese Water Torture!

Those Miniscribe MFM disks were pretty slow too.

Cheers!

 

[khc200]

my 10 meg on the 8086 or i think that was the 8088...my 8086 had no HDD i think

 

[gabegarwick]

<< 10 meg addition to my old IBM PC. OR even smaller: a 30 minute cassette tape on a commodore. >>



Hah! I remember that! Those were the days! (acoustic coupler for modem)

C64= 0 HD, 1 5.25&quot; floppy, &amp; tape drive, also took cartridges that would plug into the keyboard/cpu

small HD, maybe Mac LC III = 160 MB HD
Around the same time I was working for a company that used 286?/386? machines w/ 40 Mb HDs...

cheers,
Gabe

 

[tigerbait]

40 meg Seagate on my 386/25

 

[kbm5]

<< Remember Alley Cat? Or Print Shop? I still have those big black floppies. >>



Alley Cat, yeah baby! I hated the swiss cheese level, but everything else was great. Anybody still have the theme music available?

 

[Cerebus451]

First computer I had that actually had a hard drive was a Mac II with an 80MB hard drive. I remember after I graduated from college I shelled out $400 for an addition 105MB external hard drive.

Of course, if you want big my dad has a platter from and old old old hard drive. He wanted to make a table out of it. The platter has six holes about 3 inches in diameter each for the bolts that held it onto the spindle. The platter is about 4.5 feet in diameter. Probably held a couple of K worth of data.

 

[helppls]

512 meg

 

[Jittles]

500 MB in an old Apple performa

 

[monto]

<< 40mb i think >>

same here

 

[tkim]

had a 30mb for my low budget 1988 386 ghetto trash computer!!