the first Gigabyte hard drives came out for PC's?...
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Saweet! Yep, when a 20 GIG HD was $ 299.00 -
remember when your middle finger had no hair on it? haha
technology has come a long way..... I love those older movies when a cell phone was the size of a toaster. too funny!!Comment
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I remember when a car phone cost $1200 and make the horn honk when ringing.Comment
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The first NON-gov. available Gig HDs were available to the 'public' around '95.Comment
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I bought one of the "latest, greatest" 3GB HD desktops in '96. I asked about adding more HD... the guy looked at me like I had jackalopes under my armpits, and says, "Why??? You will NEVER need that much!"
...yeah, right.Comment
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I remember when a computer was a pencil and paper.
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I remember the first commerically available harddisk drive I had cost $450 and it was 32MB and required it's own powersupply and enclosure.
made by a company called reveal if I remember correctly.
sure made playing ZORK a whole lot more fun..Comment
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Yes early eighties.
The first computer I worked on had a 1K magnetic core memory, and a 1K expansion unit. And that was working for the government at the time keepin $20million aircraft airborne. Oh the simple days!!Comment
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We've come a long way from the Big Chief tablet and #2 pencil!
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My first one was an IBM PCXT with a 10 MEGABITE hard drive, and I had dual 5 1/4 HD floppy's added...
My first "laptop" was a Toshiba SL286 and I paid like $300 for a 1MB memory card to add to it... and like above I was told it was a waste of money because no software would ever use more than 640K RAM...
Yep, we've come a long way... and I had one of those car phones that was a big box mounted in the trunk of my car that was as big as a brief case and when it rang and I was out of the car, the horn would blow... That was 1982 and the thing cost almost $3,000!!! When I got my first "bag phone" I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!!!
Always said that if we ever got cell phone reception at the ranch, I would get off the lease... that didn't happen either. Heck, we don't even use walkie-talkies any longer. Texting is silent!Comment
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I remember taking a class in DBASE when I got out of the Army in 92. I hated it, now Excel is my best friend. I think of how much we had to do to get DBASE to spit out the same information that I get from Excel. One wrong move in DBASE and you had to start over. 20 years of progress is great!Comment
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Our appraisal company bought an electronic typewriter to replace the IBM Selectric. It had a 5.25" floppy drive attached and cost $5,600.00. First computers were IBM clones we bought from some group in Atlanta. 8088 and cost about $2,500. Think it had a 20MB HD.
Hard to believe some of the things we had before Algore invented the Internet for us
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