Monster IDE Drives

[Net Llama!]

On 02/12/04 04:31, James McDonald wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>>Kurt Wall wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Evenin', list,
>>>
>>>Has anyone run into problems using the new monster IDE drives? I
>>>just won one on eBay, a WD 120GB UltraATA/100 beast with an 8MB
>>>cache (I remember hard disks that weren't much bigger than 8MB).
> 
> 
>>first HD was a5 meg unit and I thought that was phenominal<G> That was 
>>on a converted televideo running cpm and I figured I'd never need all 
>>that storage.
>>
> 
> 
> I love listening to Ol' Timers remeniscing(speling? - hey how do you spell check in mutt?) about the good ol' days. :)


Just to make you old timers feel really old.  My first computer's HD 
(not counting the Commodore 128 which didn't have a HD) with a 256MB in 
my IBM 486-DX2-50.


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