Monster IDE Drives

[Joel Hammer]

My first hard drive was attached to my TRS-80, an external
drive the size of the Manhatten phone book. It held FIVE
MILLION bytes. I thought I was fixed for life.


Joel

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:29:11AM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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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