20droger wrote in post #12105627
Lots of things used to be true. I remember when memory was over $400 for 64KB and hard drives were 10MB. Each hard drive mounted in a 5¼" bay and had it's own front panel with an activity LED.
But then, I remember when bootproms were invented. Before them, we used a front panel to enter a 36-byte boot program one byte at a time at start up. This allowed the CPU to load the OS from a paper tape.
As my license plate frame said in the 70s: floppy now, hard later.
And who else out there knows why hard disks were called Winchester drives?
Lots of things used to be true. I remember when memory was over $400 for 64KB and hard drives were 10MB. Each hard drive mounted in a 5¼" bay and had it's own front panel with an activity LED.
But then, I remember when bootproms were invented. Before them, we used a front panel to enter a 36-byte boot program one byte at a time at start up. This allowed the CPU to load the OS from a paper tape.
As my license plate frame said in the 70s: floppy now, hard later.
And who else out there knows why hard disks were called Winchester drives?
Well... I'm not that old..
But even my first computer that I build a good 6 years ago, spent $200 for a 2x512mb kit of ram and was running a 160gb hdd which I thought was huge. I had an athlon 64 but this was before there were really any consumer 64bit OS'es, and dual cores were just about to come out. Intels hyperthreading was the big thing at the time on their P4's.
