$3000 worth of data storage...

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » December 8, 2005 11:14 am

Here I come!!!!

15 megabytes, how could you pass that up?!?

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » December 8, 2005 11:16 am

I wonder if I could fill that up with live shows

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » December 8, 2005 11:27 am

springparrot wrote:I wonder if I could fill that up with live shows

"Ladies and gentl....."
$3000 more
"men, I presen..."

sy · Post by sy » December 8, 2005 12:04 pm

Ahhh those were the days

MelliJellyBean · Post by **MelliJellyBean** » December 8, 2005 12:13 pm

hehe that's funny.

mings · Post by **mings** » December 8, 2005 12:58 pm

sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days

remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage????

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sy · Post by sy » December 8, 2005 1:03 pm

mings wrote:
sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days
remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage???

Oh heavens yes. Man, you could store everything on them! (back when 100k was like a terrabyte now)

mings · Post by **mings** » December 8, 2005 1:04 pm

sy wrote:
mings wrote:
sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days
remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage???
Oh heavens yes. Man, you could store everything on them! (back when 100k was like a terrabyte now)

I thought a terrabyte was one of those flying things at the end of Jurassic Park. (Uh oh. I didn't just ruin that for anybody did I?)

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RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 8, 2005 1:04 pm

sy wrote:
mings wrote:
sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days
remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage???
Oh heavens yes. Man, you could store everything on them! (back when 100k was like a terrabyte now)

Radio Shack TRS-80s, with the optional cassette deck for storage...

Y-NO-9-O · Post by **Y-NO-9-O** » December 8, 2005 1:12 pm

IBM PC AT with no hard drive, instead there were 2 floppy drives: one for the software and one for data storage!

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 8, 2005 2:47 pm

Y-NO-9-O wrote:IBM PC AT with no hard drive, instead there were 2 floppy drives: one for the software and one for data storage!

and they were both "full-height" drives. (the full height of the case, resting in the two drive bays available in the model.)

col cairo · Post by **col cairo** » December 8, 2005 3:15 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:
sy wrote:
mings wrote:
sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days
remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage???
Oh heavens yes. Man, you could store everything on them! (back when 100k was like a terrabyte now)
Radio Shack TRS-80s, with the optional cassette deck for storage...

I used to have one of those. We used the Apple and Apple II's in HS.

z-man · Post by **z-man** » December 8, 2005 3:17 pm

and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 8, 2005 3:17 pm

col cairo wrote:
RinglingRingling wrote:
sy wrote:
mings wrote:
sy wrote:Ahhh those were the days
remember 5" "floppy" disks???? Or when computers used actual cassette tapes for data storage???
Oh heavens yes. Man, you could store everything on them! (back when 100k was like a terrabyte now)
Radio Shack TRS-80s, with the optional cassette deck for storage...
I used to have one of those. We used the Apple and Apple II's in HS.

best part about going to Team Electronics..

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » December 8, 2005 3:22 pm

z-man wrote:and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.

Had that one with the 9600 baud modem to connect to BBS boards.

RinglingRingling · Post by **RinglingRingling** » December 8, 2005 3:33 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
z-man wrote:and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.
Had that one with the 9600 baud modem to connect to BBS boards.

9600? try 300 baud... you can literally read the printout like a "hukktonfoniks" line.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » December 8, 2005 3:40 pm

RinglingRingling wrote:
land_shark3 wrote:
z-man wrote:and before the PCs; the tiny monochrome terminals to connect with the mainframe and submit batch jobs. Then going to the computer room the next morning to pick up the output.
Had that one with the 9600 baud modem to connect to BBS boards.
9600? try 300 baud... you can literally read the printout like a "hukktonfoniks" line.

There's no way. I was excited when my mom's work upgraded her to the 14.4 and finally the 28.8.

LIPH · Post by **LIPH** » December 8, 2005 3:58 pm

My first computer when I started law school in 1991 had a 20MB hard drive. I had to buy a word processing program too, it didn't come preloaded. It cost $2500, I wonder what you could get with $2500 today.

chibears · Post by **chibears** » December 8, 2005 4:03 pm

LIPH wrote:My first computer when I started law school in 1991 had a 20MB hard drive. I had to buy a word processing program too, it didn't come preloaded. It cost $2500, I wonder what you could get with $2500 today.

I don't think you want to research that one Larry, I will promise you will be sick if you do.

mings · Post by **mings** » December 8, 2005 4:22 pm

I still have my Apple IIGS and Coleco Vision just for kicks. (I kicks them all the time.)

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