Re: Selecting a hard drive

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Selecting a hard drive
Date	2011-09-14 23:58 -0400
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, GangGreene wrote:

> Michael Black wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, GangGreene wrote:
>>
>>> Dirk Weber wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Our first pc had a 40 mb (megabytes!) hdd, would be a bit too small
>>>> nowadays.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My first pc (1977) didn't have a hard drive and was not available with a
>>> hard drive.
>>>
>>>
>> I didn't get my first computer until 1979, but there wasn't even a floppy
>> drive for it.
>>
>>     Michael
> Oh first computer, that would be an 6800 breadboard computer with a little
> bit of static ram, as in 256 bytes....Yes Bytes.
>
It would have been ludicrous to have the circuitry to refresh dynamic RAM 
if there was only 256bytes of it.

I admit I was spoiled, my KIM-1 with the 6502 had 1K of RAM.

In the early nineties, someone gave me a Processor Technology RAM board 
from the seventies.  16K of dynamic RAM, it cost a pretty penny when new. 
And yet, other than as a collector's item, completely valueless just a 
short time later.

Who could imagine that memory would become so cheap, and "permanent" that 
they'd keep music in it?

   Michael

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Selecting a hard drive Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-09-11 10:51 -0400
  Re: Selecting a hard drive david <none@nospam.com> - 2011-09-11 15:32 +0000
  Re: Selecting a hard drive General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-12 00:35 +0000
  Re: Selecting a hard drive Dirk Weber <dirk-weber@web.de> - 2011-09-13 21:40 +0200
    Re: Selecting a hard drive GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-09-13 18:42 -0400
      Re: Selecting a hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-09-13 23:00 -0400
        Re: Selecting a hard drive GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-09-14 16:20 -0400
          Re: Selecting a hard drive Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2011-09-15 01:11 +0000
            Re: Selecting a hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-09-15 00:03 -0400
            Re: Selecting a hard drive david <none@nospam.com> - 2011-09-15 10:21 +0000
          Re: Selecting a hard drive Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-09-14 23:58 -0400
          Re: Selecting a hard drive David Brown <david@westcontrol.removethisbit.com> - 2011-09-15 09:02 +0200
            Re: Selecting a hard drive GangGreene <GangGreene@invalid.com> - 2011-09-15 05:24 -0400
              Re: Selecting a hard drive Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-09-15 09:15 -0400
      Re: Selecting a hard drive Dirk Weber <dirk-weber@web.de> - 2011-09-14 15:15 +0200
    Re: Selecting a hard drive Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-09-14 07:53 -0400
      Re: Selecting a hard drive Dirk Weber <dirk-weber@web.de> - 2011-09-14 20:27 +0200

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