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In 1992, I had a 5.25 inch, double height hard drive with 8.9 MB of storage. I also had two 5.25 inch, 360 KB floppy drives. I was jealous of my friend's Mac
by devoutsalsa 3y ago
In 1992, I had a 5.25 inch, double height hard drive with 8.9 MB of storage. I also had two 5.25 inch, 360 KB floppy drives.
I was jealous of my friend's Mac w/ a 720 KB disk drive and 30 MB hard drive (although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost).
- michaelcampbell 3y ago> although his system cost probably cost 6x what my PC cost How times have (not) changed, eh?
- toast0 3y agoLikely just full height, not double height. What has become the normal height for a 5.25" drive is half height. I've seen plenty of full height 5.25" hard drives, but I don't think I've seen double height (would take 4 bays in a modern computer case, if modern computer cases had 4 bays)
- devoutsalsa 3y agoIt's been a while. It was twice the size of two 5.25 floppy drives. Whatever size that is.
- o11c 3y agoI was going to say "my current desktop has 4 CD-capable bays", but I checked and it's actually only 3 bays followed by unused space (and then 2.5" and 3.5" bays below that).
- xorcist 3y agoThe full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems. Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!
- datavirtue 3y agoMmmm...back when your computer had a smell. You mentioned that hard drive and the memories of computer aroma flashes in my snoot. I had a friend that would seal up his Nintendo to trap the aroma.