Interesting......read through....
1940 is the decade when vacuum tubes were used for storage.
1956, the first hard drive the IBM 305 RAMAC is the first magnetic hard disk for data storage. It required 50 24-inch disks to store five megabytes of data and cost roughly $35,000 a year to lease - or $7,000 per megabyte per year.
1967 - IBM builds the first floppy disk.
1978 - JUN. Apple Computer introduces the Disk II, a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive linked to the Apple II by cable. Price: US$495, including controller card.
The 1980's The introduction of the first small hard disk drives. The first 5.25-inch hard disk drives packed 5 to 10 MB of storage. At the time, a storage capacity of 10 MB was considered too large for a so-called "personal" computer.
1980 - Sony Electronics introduces the 3.5 inch floppy disk drive,
1980 - JUN. Seagate Technologies announces the first Winchester 5.25-inch hard disk drive.
1982 - SEP. Iomega begins production of the Alpha 10, a 10MB 8-inch floppy-disk drive
1982 -[/i] Davong Systems introduces its 5MB Winchester Disk Drive for US$2000.
By 1987, 3.5-inch form factor hard drives began to appear. These compact units weigh as little as a pound and are about the size of a paperback book. The 3.5-inch form factor hard drives quickly became the standard for desktop and portable systems requiring less than 500 MB capacity.
1987 - SEP. Microsoft ships Microsoft Bookshelf, its first CD-ROM application.
1991 - JUN. Tandy introduces its low-cost CDR-1000 CD-ROM drive for PCs. At US$400, including drive and controller card, it is about half the price of other drives.
1993 - OCT. NEC Technologies unveils the first triple-speed (450KBps) CD-ROM drive.
1994 - JAN. NEC Technologies ships its [i]quad-speed CD-ROM, priced at US$1000.
1994 - DEC. Iomega Corp. introduces its Zip drive and Zip disks, floppy disk sized removable storage in sizes of 25MB or 100MB.
1997 - NOV. IBM announced the world's highest capacity desktop PC hard disk drive with new breakthrough technology, a 16.8-gigabyte drive.
1998 - NOV. IBM announced a 25GB hard drive. That first hard disk drive in 1956 had a capacity of 5 megabytes. IBM's Deskstar 25GP 25-gigabyte (GB) drive has 5,000 times the capacity of that first drive. 1999 - October 18, IBM raised the bar in hard drive technology, the 10,000 RPM Ultrastar 72ZX -- the world's highest capacity drive at 73 gigabytes (GB).
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Too long to read.

Diddums

Our first computer at home had a 20mb hard drive. We had to wait ~3 months for it to arrive in Australia, as the biggest personal computer hard drive available prior to that was 10mb. We were so fucking cutting edge.

The first workshop computer here cost $8,000 and the hard drive used to require spinning by hand to get going (push power button, flick HDD platter at the same time) after a few years of operation.

Good times.

The summary of the first post is...

1940 - data was stored in vaccum tubes
1947 - Roswell UFO crash
[insert year after 1947] - megahappydatastorage everywhere

Anyone have the game 'zoo keeper'?

was made for whatever was before W95? Anywho. My first game. I remember the 28 floppy discs.

Sick

Remember back in the old days, you had to park the HDD heads before turning it off?

Yea, our first family machine - 286 with a TURBO BUTTON! Fast as man...

yeh I remember the turbo button on our 386 we had at home, took it from 25Mhz to 33Mhz. Who remombers Duke Nukem 3D?!

I don't remember that game but I do remember having about 50 discs to install something

I do remember monkey island!!

Can't remember what we had first, but had a monochrome screen and a 5.25" floppy drive for our gaming needs

Then came the 286 with turbo button and 40mb hdd... and a whopping 1mb of RAM!

Sweet fucking jesus, monkey island was awesome!!!! Guybrush threepwood!!!

I am rubber you are glue.

cmon guys someone must know zoo keeper...

not even google helps me here. ill search for some shots of it lolol

Lesiure Suit Larry.


There's ya winner And the censored section when ya humpin that prozzy. And ya carked it if you didn't use the rubber.

Ken Sent Me.

And them pointy toe'd shoes really hurt.

That was the first game I pirated, tee hee. And I didnt know about the alt-x thing to bypass the age verification at the start, so I asked my folks to help me get into the game. Lucky they didnt stay for any of the game. I dont think they would have approved.

Also, IIRC the CENSORED was only if you didnt pass age verification?

I remember that age verification, i even remember one of the questions!

"Who is the president of the united states?

A. blah blah
B. William Clinton
C. blah blah"

That concludes today's useless fact #5.

Anyone play Day of the Tentacle? It came out a bit later, i think it may have even been on cd? It was great! Gameplay and humor was up there with monkey island! And from a similar period, syndicate wars? Fuck i loved that came.

Fuck I loved DOT!!!

Oooh Syndicate Wars

And Warlords! And Civ1! And Commander Keen! And, oh, the mammaries.

Zee memories are coming flooding back!! Can't forget Street Rod