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As someone who's first computer was an 8-bit machine with only 16k of RAM - and a cassette tape drive for storage (all circa 1984)... ...well, this is kinda ne

• bradknowles 7y ago
  My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20, with 5KB of RAM and we splurged hundreds of dollars for the cassette tape drive. I think that was 1982 or maybe 1983. Years later, I worked for Imprimis (since bought by Seagate), and I worked closely with the manufacturing engineer responsible for the Wren VII line of hard drives. Those were the first consumer-grade SCSI hard drives that had 1GB of raw storage. I've still got some of the magnet fragments taken from some of the early drives that came off the line. Those damn things can't be removed from your refrigerator just by pulling on them -- they're too strong. You can only slide them, or tip them, and hope you don't get your fingers caught. We've come a long way.