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06-25-2003, 06:22 PM
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did i just find a 3.2 gig hard drive in my old pc?
i just looked at my 5 or 6 year old packard bell that was up in the attic.
on the side it lists a 3.2 gig hd.
is that possible?
it is a seagate dma.
is this something, if it still works, i could use as a backup drive?
i was planning on getting A small 20 gig one but even they run around 60-70 bucks.
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06-25-2003, 06:35 PM
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on the side it lists a 3.2 gig hd.
is that possible?
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Tony, just exactly how young are you? 
That drive is pretty big compared some a lot that are still out there in use on corporate machines.
Plug it in. It'll work, unless it's faulty. You're not going to fit much on a 3.2gb drive but there's no reason why you shouldn't use it. |
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06-25-2003, 07:50 PM
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39. i bought this about 6 years ago, or maybe longer.
it seemed odd because in my recent search for a new hd the smallest i saw was a 20 gig at compusa.
it might seem to be about right now that i think about it.
i remember when i bought my current pc, 2 years ago, and it came with a 40 gig hd and i thought that was huge. compared to the one before which was 16 gb.
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"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
Movies watched 2008 Watching a Mits 73831 DLP Arnold is here
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06-25-2003, 10:55 PM
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Heh, my last computer had a 1.2G drive in it. When I bought that it was huge 
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06-25-2003, 11:15 PM
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>>39.<<
OK, I HAVE to ask, so how many 39s have it been (anybody remembers Jack Benny?) ??
My old Dell Dimension XPS T500, 4.5 years old, pretty close to around top of the line home/home office box at the time, came with a 13.7G, as your box is older, 3.2G sounded about right.
20G drive is not a good deal now, you should be able to find a 40G for about $50, not having to look real hard (don't even have to go EBay). |
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06-25-2003, 11:19 PM
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I think the smallest hard drive i have is (was) in my old 386 laptop, it was like 500megs. Another i have inside my Pentium 166, thats a 850MB (i also hav a 3 gig one in there too)
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06-26-2003, 02:27 AM
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27 here and I remember the good old days... Surfing the
"Internet" (BBS's) on a wicked fast Tandy-88 8088IBM
Compatible. Now bear in mind this was the "Deluxe" version
WITH a hard disk.. The cheaper model had no internal disk
what-so-ever... That internal disk was a whopping 540K!
Ohh yes those were the days.. 9600 baud cradle modems and
less ram than today's processors have as cache!
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06-26-2003, 02:27 AM
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this little baby is about 3 Gig, and its fine for surfing, word processing, emails, etc.
we are thinking about bronzing it this or next year tho |
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06-26-2003, 02:36 AM
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I remember when the 20mb hard drive for the Amiga was considered 'cool' |
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06-26-2003, 08:28 AM
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Yeah, I had one of those 20 MB hard drives and was the envy of my friends who were still feeding floppies into their Amigas.
Then one of my friends bought a 1 GB drive. It didn't fit in the case but stood freely on his desk connected to the machine with nothing but a cable, and the rest of us were green with envy.  It was a behem | |
