mbonsack;145860 Wrote: > When I was at HP in 83 and 84, we affectionately called our 404MB drives > "dishwashers", as they looked almost *exactly* like one, replete with > front-panel controls and door-locking mechanism for the top-load disk > pack. They too required 220V power, weighed a ton, and used a > removable pack that looked like a stack of dinner plates in keeping > with the kitchen motif. It even sounded like a dishwasher and > practically shook itself off the floor when doing heavy I/O. > > These drives were the ones used in the data center that got shot up in > one of the "Die Hard" movies. It was good to see these things still > had a useful life well after the last bit was transferred from them.
My Ipod nano has 10 times that capacity... And it has 100 times the capacity of the hard drive my PC (386) had in 1989 (and I had a really huge drive for a private PC). My laptop has more than 20 times the amount of RAM compared to my 1989 hard drive.. It is freakin amazing, when you think about it! ;-) -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
