It's so... small!
 

Got the hard drive in the laptop switched out today. Old one was clicking, but still readable. (Thank heaven for Ghost.)

Upgraded from 80GB to 120GB, which doesn't sound all that massive until you actually see the drive itself:

http://img38.imagefra.me/img/img38/2...0m_cf5dd09.jpg

A bit larger than a MicroDrive, but still makes a standard 2.5" laptop drive look like a a stone tablet.

You ever stop and think for a while about the fact that we undeniably live in the future now?

I'm waiting for my Johnny Mnemonic chip.

Yep. I remember watching Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager) as a kid and thinking how cool it would be to have a PADD:

http://www.lcarsmania.com/sttools/padd-palm.jpg

And now we do with the iPhone/iPod Touch.

that's a massive palm

http://www.pcper.com/images/news/g94...ompare_g94.jpg

There are over like 700 million transistors in that chip. Just think about that for a little while.

Pretty much every time I reach into my pocket and pull out my little Swiss Army knife (which has a USB memory stick in it) and think "This knife has more storage capacity than existed in the entire world during the Apollo moon landings."

That is pretty small for a HDD, the new SSD are pretty damn small as well.

http://www.driveyourlaptop.com/Data/...comparison.jpg

sorry about size, seems sandisk likes huge pictures.

And yet, here I am doing afterhours support with an RDP client on my other monitor, trying desperately to just get a dang service pack to install on a client's server. Why? Security concerns? Technology updates? Functional improvements?

No. I'm just trying to install blasted Word 2007. :jerkit:

Progress? I don't think so.

Word on a server? Makes sense? I don't think so...

Terminal server. ;)

I finally got the service pack installed, but I rebooted almost 10 minutes ago, and it hasn't allowed me to remote in again since. :(

Makes sense. We have remote power switches on all our machines just for instances like you are running into right now. Also, LAN KVMs. Makes working remotely on the servers so cake.

yeah, well this is my most cheap-ass customer, so no DRACs on this server. I created a trouble ticket for in the morning.

FML.

I live 20 min away from my building anyway. So I just take small trips on Saturdays to do shit like this that might result in an outage.

Thank goodness for aliens.

God I hate those ZIF drives.

Small, yet unreliable.

That what she said?
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Her: It's so....small
Joe: Yeah, but look what it can do!

BTW, that needed a little time to sink in. Mind if you tell me where you sourced that bit of info from?

Finally, Hustler can have a hard drive smaller than his penis.

my video card got bigger....

http://boostedmiata.com/random/pics/video_card.jpg

I still have my very first physical hard drive..

Western Digital 40mb. Was 3.5" wide by 2.5" thick. Slower than shit too.

Not as impressively vintage, but no less bizarre, I wish I had kept one of those "Big Foot" drives from an old Compaq system I used to have.

What a stupid idea. lol.

My first hard drive was an MFM 10MB monster. 5 1/4". Connected it to an RLL controller and got about 50% more capacity of of it. Ever hear of miniscribe? The platters (2 of 'em) made a nice clock.

Oh yeah, I remember when the super-thin yet ultra-wide bigfoots came out. IBM used 'em in a bunch of their machines. I think my exact words were something along the lines of "What the fuck is this? Didn't we stop building 5.25" hard drives ten years ago?"

I was kind of a late adopter when hard drives came out, largely because I couldn't afford one. My first drive was an ST296N (80MB, SCSI, 5.25" half-height) that bought when I upgraded from an 8088 to a 16 Mhz 286. My second hard drive, however, was pretty impressive. It was a used 100 meg SCSI 5.25" full-height unit made by Control Data Corp. (For those who don't go back this far, a common desktop CD/DVD-ROM drive is half-height. Two of 'em stacked together would be a full-height drive.) The unusual thing is that it was nearly a foot deep (front to back) as it had a linear servo driving the heads straight in and out- none of this stepper motor business.

@ jayc72, wow, I'd totally forgotten about doing MFM/RLL conversions. I doubt if 1% of the folks on the 'net today have ever even seen a hard drive with seperate data and control cables.

Who here remembers Conner? Shugart? Rodime?


http://img39.imagefra.me/img/img39/2...qm_c087544.jpg


Incidentally, I'd thought that MicroDrive (1 inch) was the smallest form-factor out there, but it turns out that Toshiba now has a 0.85" drive in 2GB and 4GB capacities, models MK2001MTN and MK4001MTD, which weigh 5.7 grams.

http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/...2006/03/22.jpg

http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/...006/03/111.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...343cc0e3_o.jpg

I guess my biggest question is why? MicroSD cards are smaller than my thumbnail, and currently hold 16 GB at about $50. Proper SSDs are getting cheap too.



The big question: Anybody here remember core?

our pc xt had a full height hd. right next to the 360K 5-1/4 floppy drive.
our mac plus had an external 20mb scsi drive. I forget the brand. FX/FI or something?

incidentally, was it IBM that first created the little 1" square logo sticker that graced many a "pc clone" computer case for years to follow?

Its pretty sick to think back to when I was a kid and we used those brown computers with the green screen...and now the phone I carry has more computing power just 20-years later. It doesn't have removable storage though...lol.