September 15, 2025Sep 15 3.75MB of storage https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/ibm-announced-the-worlds-first-hdd-the-3-75mb-ramac-350-disk-storage-unit-69-years-ago-today-unit-weighed-more-than-a-ton-50-platters-ran-at-1-200-rpm 800ms seek time About 2000 lbs 1800 watts on 230v 3 phase power Thanks Tom’s Hardware for reminding me … my first exposure to HDDs, was a 10MB HDD in an IBM PC. Prior to that is was good old cassette tapes. Not a fan of the “good old days” … embarrassing progress. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
September 15, 2025Sep 15 I seem to vaguely remember an old storage system that used some sort of magnetic rings (I think) EDIT: Yup, found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory Edited September 15, 2025Sep 15 by HiFlyer We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
September 15, 2025Sep 15 When I was in high school in the early 1970s, I had a part time job on Saturdays at an import company. I would run an IBM 360 that was paired to an IBM 1311 disk storage drive. I would feed the computer to run an invoicing program, as both the program and transactions were on punch cards. I also loaded up the printer that would produce the invoices for mailing, along with a summary report of the transactions. It took about 2-3 hours. I have no idea of the storage capacity of the disks were. I had to install the disks, which were fairly large. When not in use, the disks would be stored within a plastic cover, sort of like a cover that you would put over a cake. You would put it on a spindle and screw it down. For whatever reason, this reminds me of how way back then there would be lots of commercials on TV advertising technical schools (medical aides, nursing, aircraft maintenance, etc.). This thread reminds me of some computer school that had a memorable catch phrase but I can’t remember the school itself. Anyone remember “For those who like working with their hands without getting their fingernails dirty”? 🤣 Edited September 16, 2025Sep 16 by Mike A Add text
September 19, 2025Sep 19 On 9/14/2025 at 11:55 PM, SayAgain said: Thanks Tom’s Hardware for reminding me … my first exposure to HDDs, was a 10MB HDD in an IBM PC. Prior to that is was good old cassette tapes. Not a fan of the “good old days” … embarrassing progress. Yeah the good old days were not so good sometimes. I remember bricking one of those early hard drives because I entered incorrect parameters somewhere...BIOS maybe, I can't remember. You shoulda heard the sounds that HDD made after that boot. Screeeeeeeuuurrrrrr...pop and that was all she wrote. I think it was probably defective from the get-go. Part of it could have been me being an inexperienced teenager, too. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
September 19, 2025Sep 19 Author ooops, meant to say “embracing progress” … all in. Yeah, my 10MB HDD made all kinds of noise during a compile … and I was amazed at its speed and access times around 120ms random read. I found it : A beast … my Samsung NVMe 9100 is 2200 IOPS so about 0.3ms random read 🙂 Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan
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