Hard Drive Giveaway #5: I've Got 3350 GB of Storage to Give Away

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Hard Drive Giveaway #5: I've Got 3350 GB of Storage to Give Away

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09-26-2009, 04:01 AM

jazboy01 Pupil Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 15		my first hard drive My first hard drive was 20 GB in my desktop. I custom builded my desktop with help of my frd. I can't recall how much it cost but i guess it costs around $150.00.

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09-27-2009, 12:25 AM

jlafount Pupil Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 25		I don't remember the exact size. I think it was around 500MB and this was in 1995.

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09-28-2009, 02:14 PM

tabi13 Pupil Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 44		I came into the PC scene a bit late. My first hard drive was a 1gb Seagate 5400rpm drive which came bundled in an unbranded system (branded/unbranded had huge price differences then) with Pentium 100Mhz 16mb Ram 1gb Seagate 5400rpm HD and A MPEG card!!! (remember those?) Cost me somewhere in the neighbourhood of $900!! back in 1996

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09-28-2009, 04:26 PM

Ploobers Intellectual Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 121		I remember destroying a 420 MB hard drive, so that the OS showed it having a negative 1 GB of storage. I replaced that hard drive with a 500 MB one.

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09-28-2009, 07:34 PM

rkistler Theorist Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 275		First two systems were floppy drives only - wasn't until purchasing a Northgate 286-based system that a HD was included. Do not remember what the HD added to the cost, but it was a MicroScience 60MB RLL drive: 50% more storage and faster data access than the more common MFM drives of the time (most competing systems installed 30 - 40MB drives). First REPLACEMENT HD that we purchased was 250MB. Do not recall manufacturer, but do remember being tickled that cost was BELOW the "magical" $1/MB price point (! ) - which is also referenced by one of the earlier posts....

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10-01-2009, 03:25 PM

gschlau Pupil Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 10		Much more interesting is the LACK of a HDD, methinks. My first computer (in 1988) was actually a HUGE NEC (remember them?) laptop. It had two 720k floppy drives--one for the program disk and one for the data. Quicken ran beautifully this way! Remember when code--good code--fit inside 720k? Ha!

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10-01-2009, 11:22 PM

Jason Dunn Executive Editor Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 24,845		The contest is now closed. And the winner is...Bob Christensen! Thanks to everyone that entered. It was fun reading about some really old technology. __________________ Want to contact me personally? Use this. Want to read my personal blog? Check it out. Want to follow me on Twitter? Here you go.

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10-02-2009, 10:02 PM

dtanderson Pupil Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 21		congrats! Bob

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10-03-2009, 12:13 AM

jazboy01 Pupil Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 15		Congrats Bob

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