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> old Connor 40 meg drive I would like to call out to the younger readers that this is not a typo. Think about how minuscule the capacity of this hard drive i

> old Connor 40 meg drive I would like to call out to the younger readers that this is not a typo. Think about how minuscule the capacity of this hard drive is, and also that it's entirely possible it was a full height 5.25" drive, which is 3.25" tall! Here is a fun tour of old drive technology that goes into just how amazingly simple some of it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbFKV_pPAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LbFKV_pPAE

Agingcoder 3y ago
Yep I owned a 40 meg drive. I remember when very large applications appeared (50 megs) wondering how it was even at all possible, and whether it made sense. It also meant lots of highly unreliable floppies !
lowestprimate 3y ago
I worked on this drive. It's a 3.5 drive. A long time ago. Time for my daily nap and Centrum shot.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  Wait in line, and give me back those 8" floppies that you borrowed. Seriously though: the amount of miniaturization in storage is something I'll never get used to. From punch cards and papertape via cassette to floppies, harddrives (in various incarnations and densities) and now to solid state so compact that you could store all of the data that I've created in my whole life in something about the size of your smallest fingernail. Incredible.
marcusb 3y ago
Yep, I had a Seagate 40MB IDE hard drive, which I considered quite compact at 3.5” full height. It replaced 20MB full-height 5.25” MFM drives. The MFM drives were… fun… in that if you connected one of the two data cables upside down, you’d crash the armature and destroy the hard drive.
qingcharles 3y ago
Ah, you young'uns with your 40MB drives. My first was a full-height 10MB drive on my Sirius 1. That thing was life-changing. Someone gave me a 30GB drive the other day. I still haven't figured a use for it?
gruturo 3y ago
>> old Connor 40 meg drive >I would like to call out to the younger readers that this is not a typo. Actually there is a typo there, it's Conner. But yeah, 40MB was even a luxurious capacity, my first HDD was 20 (later reformatted to 30 with an RLL controller)
- randombits0 3y ago
  Cheater! I used pirated ROMs to make my USR HST a dual standard.
yencabulator 3y ago
I ran a BBS with MFM & RLL drives. The table shook when I formatted a hard drive.
- randombits0 3y ago
  A:>debug -g=c800:5

Agingcoder 3y ago

Yep I owned a 40 meg drive. I remember when very large applications appeared (50 megs) wondering how it was even at all possible, and whether it made sense. It also meant lots of highly unreliable floppies !

lowestprimate 3y ago

I worked on this drive. It's a 3.5 drive. A long time ago. Time for my daily nap and Centrum shot.

jacquesm 3y ago
Wait in line, and give me back those 8" floppies that you borrowed. Seriously though: the amount of miniaturization in storage is something I'll never get used to. From punch cards and papertape via cassette to floppies, harddrives (in various incarnations and densities) and now to solid state so compact that you could store all of the data that I've created in my whole life in something about the size of your smallest fingernail. Incredible.

marcusb 3y ago

Yep, I had a Seagate 40MB IDE hard drive, which I considered quite compact at 3.5” full height. It replaced 20MB full-height 5.25” MFM drives. The MFM drives were… fun… in that if you connected one of the two data cables upside down, you’d crash the armature and destroy the hard drive.

qingcharles 3y ago

Ah, you young'uns with your 40MB drives. My first was a full-height 10MB drive on my Sirius 1. That thing was life-changing. Someone gave me a 30GB drive the other day. I still haven't figured a use for it?

gruturo 3y ago

>> old Connor 40 meg drive >I would like to call out to the younger readers that this is not a typo. Actually there is a typo there, it's Conner. But yeah, 40MB was even a luxurious capacity, my first HDD was 20 (later reformatted to 30 with an RLL controller)

randombits0 3y ago
Cheater! I used pirated ROMs to make my USR HST a dual standard.

yencabulator 3y ago

I ran a BBS with MFM & RLL drives. The table shook when I formatted a hard drive.

randombits0 3y ago
A:>debug -g=c800:5