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.
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. :lol:
I remember 5 1/4 inch floppies. Back when backups took discipline.
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.
Quote from: Warspite on October 20, 2009, 04:55:32 PM
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 :mad:
my first IT classes in school used cassette tapes as media... and that was BEFORE the Commodore 64 :)
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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.....
Quote from: Monoriu on October 21, 2009, 05:39:41 AM
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 :mad:
Technically a high-density floppy disk is 2.88MB... unformatted. :contract:
The manufacturing cost of 1gb as gone from 200$ to 18ยข in the past 15 years.
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 20, 2009, 04:47:01 PM
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. :lol:
Tapes are still the thing for long term backups.
Quote from: Tyr on October 21, 2009, 07:08:59 AM
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
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.
Quote from: Monoriu on October 22, 2009, 08:37:19 PM
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.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on October 20, 2009, 04:43:04 PM
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. :(
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 20, 2009, 04:47:01 PM
I have a box of iomega zip disks. And no drive. :lol:
I've got a couple iomega drives if you want one. Never need them anymore, as DVD stores more porn.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 22, 2009, 10:47:45 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 20, 2009, 04:47:01 PM
I have a box of iomega zip disks. And no drive. :lol:
I've got a couple iomega drives if you want one. Never need them anymore, as DVD stores more porn.
Thanks, but anything valuable on the disks was transferred to CD a long time ago.
My first games were on 5.25 inch discs.
Then came the 3.5 inch discs.
Next were CDs.
Now we have DVDs.
I wonder when games on USB flash drives will appear. I'm somewhat surprised that I still don't see any.
Quote from: Monoriu on October 25, 2009, 11:58:46 AM
I wonder when games on USB flash drives will appear. I'm somewhat surprised that I still don't see any.
Go down to your local Best Buy. They're there. Free.
Quote from: Monoriu on October 25, 2009, 11:58:46 AM
My first games were on 5.25 inch discs.
Then came the 3.5 inch discs.
Next were CDs.
Now we have DVDs.
I wonder when games on USB flash drives will appear. I'm somewhat surprised that I still don't see any.
IMHO the reason is money. DVDs today are so cheap to manufacture in great quantities that they are essentially free. USB pen drives still can't compete with that.
I think you are correct. Also, for storage that is not going to change, like a game or a backup, there is no need to invest in flash when non-volatile storage medium like DVDs are extremely cheap.
It's coming tho.
Cartridge games(in SSD-form this time) shall return.
I've still got an old Apple II GS in my parents basement. Once I get my own house I'm gonna try to get it running again and relive my childhood on all those ancient games, like Mixed Up Mother Goose.
Unfortunately, the last time I tried starting it up (years ago) the CPU didn't turn on, but the monitor did. I'll have to look into what I might do to fix it. If all else fails, I'll figure out a way to attach it's (External, ~50 mb) hard drive to a newer computer and emulate it.
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 27, 2009, 01:41:10 AM
Cartridge games(in SSD-form this time) shall return.
DS cartridges use solid-state flash memory, and the PSP is highly expandable through applications on flash memory. :contract:
I'd like to see a return to cartridge games, though, because it would probably do a lot to lower game expenses- a game development studio could be more likely to feel the game is done and polished at a smaller size and simply opt to use a smaller amount of memory, as opposed to filling up the disk with "bonuses" like lossless audio or retarded gallery slideshows (examples being Thunder Force V: Perfect System or Goldeneye: Rogue Agent).