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I still have the whopping 5 meg hard disk that my dad bought for his model 1 in my garage. I vividly remember him yelling "tell it to park" before shutting it o
by cronix 5y ago
I still have the whopping 5 meg hard disk that my dad bought for his model 1 in my garage. I vividly remember him yelling "tell it to park" before shutting it off. It's huge. The hard disk was about 6x bigger than the actual computer and cost around $1k, but you still had to issue a "park" command before powering off or you could ruin the thing when powering on next time and the heads seek. You couldn't boot off of it either. Still had to load the OS via 5 1/4" 360k (IIRC) floppies before accessing. It also made some pretty cool squeaks and squawks while in use - sounds I've never heard from any other HD since.