Idle Thoughts

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'm doing a full backup of many of my servers and will have around 700gbs on tape, and that's probably short by a few hundred that is just being replicated.

My first HD was the size of a shoe box and was 20mbs.  It seemed gigantic. 

Now I have these thumpers with 48 hard drives and 24tb of potential storage and the Library of Congress has a few hundred (lowball) petabytes of data. 

What a marvelous modern world we live in.

[Ed Anger]

Tape? I haven't used that stuff in at least 8 or 9 years.

I have a box of iomega zip disks. And no drive. 

[Warspite]

I remember 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back when backups took discipline.

[Monoriu]

I see people complaining about crash to desktops all the time.  15 years ago when I used DOS, a crash to desktop was not the worst thing to happen.  Most of the time, the screen just froze, and I had to reboot. 

[Monoriu]

I remember 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back when backups took discipline.

My early computers all had two floppy drives - 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppies.  I spent hours trying to figure out the DOS commands to back up programmes with more than 1.44 MB.  Spent countless nights praying to get 2.88 MB floppies.  A wish that was never granted 

[Valdemar]

my first IT classes in school used cassette tapes as media... and that was BEFORE the Commodore 64

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[Josquius]

I remember my speccy and its tape drive.
There was apparently a floppy drive add on and it seemed very high tech and something I fondly desired.

Then my first PC with its amazing 2gb hd.....

[DontSayBanana]

My early computers all had two floppy drives - 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch floppies.  I spent hours trying to figure out the DOS commands to back up programmes with more than 1.44 MB.  Spent countless nights praying to get 2.88 MB floppies.  A wish that was never granted 

Technically a high-density floppy disk is 2.88MB... unformatted.

[Grey Fox]

The manufacturing cost of 1gb as gone from 200$ to 18¢ in the past 15 years.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Tape? I haven't used that stuff in at least 8 or 9 years.

I have a box of iomega zip disks. And no drive. 

Tapes are still the thing for long term backups. 

[grumbler]

I remember my speccy and its tape drive.
There was apparently a floppy drive add on and it seemed very high tech and something I fondly desired.

Then my first PC with its amazing 2gb hd.....

I remember when we got a computer at work that actually had a hard drive.  You didn't need to run the computer off 5 1/4 inch floppies! You could even switch programs without rebooting the computer!!!oneoneone

[Monoriu]

When I played games with DOS, there was a very odd rule.  No matter how much RAM I had, the programmes needed xxxk of the 640k base memory or whatever.  I had to do a lot of things to the config.sys and some other file to release the memory.  Back then starting every game was a challenge.  Password protections, figuring out which .exe file actually started the game etc. 

[grumbler]

When I played games with DOS, there was a very odd rule.  No matter how much RAM I had, the programmes needed xxxk of the 640k base memory or whatever.  I had to do a lot of things to the config.sys and some other file to release the memory.  Back then starting every game was a challenge.  Password protections, figuring out which .exe file actually started the game etc.

Ah, yes, writing batch files to load stuff into himem.  Good times.

[DisturbedPervert]

My first HD was the size of a shoe box and was 20mbs.  It seemed gigantic. 

I think mine was 40.  I had two games that used the hard drive, Wing Commander II and Ultima 7.  I could only have one of them installed at a time.   

[CountDeMoney]

I have a box of iomega zip disks. And no drive. 

I've got a couple iomega drives if you want one.  Never need them anymore, as DVD stores more porn.