that's mega bytes

[jixel.livejournal.com]

yah some of us remember this shit, so does it count as vintage?

available at the shitshack, home of the trash-80

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[freezer.livejournal.com]

I have MP3s bigger than that!

[jixel.livejournal.com]

haha nice. so true

[chase820.livejournal.com]

Wow. What the heck do you even do with a 15 MB harddrive? A lot of text files are bigger than that.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

15M text?? like what??

hey back then we didn't even have graphics much less color screens lol

[chase820.livejournal.com]

hmmm--maybe I'm thinking of 15kb text files. Still, 15MB isn't very much.

[gullinbursti.livejournal.com]

A stock Model III couldn't have handled even a 15kb text file -- the base model had 4K of RAM (and cost about $700.) If you paid $2500 for a tricked out one, you could fit two 15K text files in memory AND have 2K left over. Raw power!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

In my first computer class in high school we used Trs80-III's. Over Christmas break, they were upgraded from 4k RAM and tape drives to a whopping 16k and single sided floppies. Serious hotrods there.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

it was insane amount back then - computer memory was a premium then (obviously)

[gairid.livejournal.com]

The price tag is pretty terrifying!

[cynica.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine having been the guy who bought that then looking at prices today.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

heh but it was prob pretty cool, in geek world anyway

[beeooll.livejournal.com]

$166 per mb then. $.000095 per mb now (Assuming a 1TB drive @$100).

A terabyte drive, had they existed then, at that cost per mb would be 174 meeeeellion dollars.

[freezer.livejournal.com]

That was pure Geek Bait, considering the equivlent in floppies (5-1/2", no less!) would've run $50 at the most.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

heh but this was like the equivalent of having a terbyte bck then, price notwithstanding

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Holy crap!

[jtaylor2.livejournal.com]

Damn, that's awesome.

[albear.livejournal.com]

My first computer in the early 1990's had a 40 MB hard drive. And check this one out, it has a key to protect your sh\t and all!~

[jixel.livejournal.com]

yeah i remember when having 20M was a big deal. hard to imagine we toss around gigs like they're old pencils now

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

"yah some of us remember this shit, so does it count as vintage?"

"Some of us remember it" because it's been posted a number of times before :D

[misstia]

i don't think this has been posted that often...not as often as lysol for personal cleansing....

[jixel.livejournal.com]

oy. well some of us actually lived it. like "we remember" when there was only one star wars movie .. and lots of other arcane technobia

[johnnythunderz.livejournal.com]

This is really one of those pictures you have seen a "million" times on every LJ community.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

i have, or you have :P

first time i'd seen it, so that's just how it is my friend

[johnnythunderz.livejournal.com]

i thought in a general way hehe
its a first time for everybody, so hey, its cool :)

[foxsong.livejournal.com]

When was this? '78, '79, something like that?

My husband says they were huge, too, almost as big as a stereo amp...

[jixel.livejournal.com]

don't recall .. stereo amps were pretty big then lol

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I learned on a TRS-80! Yikes.

*is middle aged*

[jixel.livejournal.com]

10 print heh
20 goto 10

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

TRS DOS for the win. Knowing the correct keystrokes to make it show the angry message from the developer for extra win.

[jixel.livejournal.com]

rofl

nutty folks here. good comment to end the thread thanks lol

[wanderius-thrax.livejournal.com]

i once had a 5mb drive that worked on my apple II. It weighed about 20 pounds and was like 2 feet by 1 foot by 8". Awesome. I got it free in '90. Half the drive was bad, so only like 2.5mb would format. But STILL, compared to floppy storage, that was grrrrrreat. I ran a BBS on it for awhile.

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

Post this picture again when we all have a network of blood-cell-sized terabyte drives flowing through our veins and robot eyes and rocket pants and shit like that. You know, for irony.