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Grogster

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Posted: 04:49am 18 Aug 2021

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Plugged in an SOS cellphone today, and it presented itself as a USB flash drive.
That's not unusual - most cellphones do.

But this one has an AMAZING amount of space on offer!

Wow.
I wonder what I can store in 10k of USB drive space.....

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

circuit
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Posted: 06:25am 18 Aug 2021

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What WAS amazing is what we could actually achieve with 128K floppies...

Mixtel90

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Posted: 06:56am 18 Aug 2021

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Ehhh!! 128k? Tha' doesn't know 'ow lucky tha was! When I were a lad we 'ad the Shugart SA400 drives that formatted to 87.5k.

It was still *way* more than the maximum addressable RAM on most machines though.

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CaptainBoing

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Posted: 07:32am 18 Aug 2021

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right.

We 'ad a Crawmemcaw Z2D wi' twin farve an' a quarters, 60 kee each! Full 'ight an' arl

Translation:

We had a Cromemco Z2D with twin full height 5 1/4 drives each formatted to 60KB.
Edited 2021-08-18 18:03 by CaptainBoing

Nimue

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Posted: 04:39pm 18 Aug 2021

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I had a microdrive for my Speccy that ran to 85k.... so I was rocking it.

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Mixtel90

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Posted: 04:51pm 18 Aug 2021

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My BBS ran on 3 microdrives. Massive storage, eh? :)

Mick

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Davo99
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Posted: 09:00pm 18 Aug 2021

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I remember Microdrives.... barely. Not the most reliable of devices.

Then going the other way. I remember when 100 Mb Zip disks came in.
Wow, what a boon those things were. So much storage in a transportable medium.

Now there is a TB on a micro SD card!
That was the sort of thing you would talk about as a stupid, over the top joke just 20 years ago if that. Like a computer with a Gigabyte of memory when having 8 Mb was considered a healthy machine. That was like talking about putting a jet engine in your car. I don't know what they are up to now, my old machine has 32 Gb of ram and its an old machine.

My First PC had 30 Mb Hdd. Few years later I bought a used one and took the 20Mb Hdd out of that and the ram and had 50Mb storage and 4 Mb or ram. What a Machine!

Mixtel90

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Posted: 09:27pm 18 Aug 2021

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32GB of RAM? sheesh...

This has 4GB and a 64GB SSD. Mind you, it's a baby fanless box and hardly warms up at all. It's certainly no gaming machine! A major upgrade was adding a 128GB M.2 module to get another drive. :)

I think I still have a Syquest EZ drive somewhere...

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