did i just find a 3.2 gig hard drive in my old pc? (1 Viewer)

[TonyD]

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.

 

[Rob Gillespie]

on the side it lists a 3.2 gig hd.
is that possible?

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.

 

[TonyD]

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.

 

[Richard Travale]

Heh, my last computer had a 1.2G drive in it. When I bought that it was huge

 

[Steve_Ch]

>>39.

 

[NickSo]

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)

 

[Brett DiMichele]

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!

 

[John Watson]

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

 

[Rob Gillespie]

I remember when the 20mb hard drive for the Amiga was considered 'cool'

 

[Kimmo Jaskari]

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 behemoth, 5.25 inch full-height drive and sounded like a lawnmower, but hey, it was 1 GB!

 

[MarkHastings]

Remember, 5 years ago was 1998. Could you even install windows '98 (along with Microsoft Office) on anything less than a gig HD?

(Flashback Memory): When I first bought my Mac PPC (the first of the PowerPC's) I went to a computer store to buy a game and asked the guy if I needed more than the 16MB's of RAM I had in my machine. His eyes got REALLY BIG and said (in envy) "You have 16MB of MEMORY!!!???"

 

[Rob Gillespie]

Could you even install windows '98 (along with Microsoft Office) on anything less than a gig HD?

Easily. That would probably take half a gig at most.

 

[MarkHastings]

Rob, I know. I was just being more sarcastic and humerous.

 

[Holadem]

Rob, I know. I was just being more sarcastic and humerous.

I don't know why but this was hilarious

Anyway, 6 years ago, my computer came with a 3.2 gig drive. A year later, I had a 6 gig.

--
Holadem

 

[MarkHastings]

I don't know why but this was hilarious

Maybe the heat and humidity here in CT has finally gotten to you?

 

[John_Bonner]

I remember around 1990 or so my first work "laptop".
It was a Compaq luggable...looked (and weighed) like a small suitcase, had two 5 1/4 floppies and a whopping 10MB hard disk. I was the envy of my work peers.

Anyone remember Bernoulli cartridges?

To answer TonyD, I still have running a Compaq Presario from late 1996, early 1997 with a 3.2GB hard drive. My 4 year old uses it for surfing pbskids.org and some pre-K games. It really came in handy when I needed to reformat my main pc. I was able to temporarily store important files, digital camera pictures, etc. then send them back after the reformat.

If it still boots up, use it!

 

[MarkHastings]

So far, the earliest reference (I could find) to one of the first gigabyte (1GB) hard drives (for consumer use) was in 1995...8 years ago!

I did find this though:

Anyone remember Bernoulli cartridges?

Remember??? My company was still using them a few years back

 

[Max Leung]

Heh, old drives aren't that great anymore. They are so loud compared to the new drives that I don't bother installing them. Who wants to install an old drive that is louder then everything in your new PC nowadays?

 

[Steve_Ch]

>>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.

 

[MarkHastings]

They are so loud compared to the new drives

We have a PC at work that is SO loud, we call it the chainsaw machine