Hard Drive Storage - The computer Chronicles show 1985

[maflynn]

Here's an oldy but a goody, I remember watching this show back in the early/mid 80s. I find these old shows so intriqueing in part because of how much the technology has changed and in some ways not changed. For instance, I'm still using spinning drives for my backups.

 

[TopherMan12]

Gary Kildall: The man who could have been Bill Gates. Couldn't land the deal with IBM that eventually went to Microsoft.

Yeah, used to love watching The Computer Chronicles.

 

[2984839]

I enjoyed that, thanks for posting it. I'm about to go build a RAID array out of a bunch of spinners for my backup server today and it's quite cool to think that the tech is still around almost unchanged from when that show was made.

 

[Sarbun96]

I hear Dell just moved away from using these in their consumer machines ;-)

 

[IowaLynn]

My 10K Raptors are still alive but slow for today, noisy of course. And how can I forget the $1,000s in controllers, terminators, SCSI cables... Ouch!

Would I want some IBM pizza oven style 20-100MB "spinners" pulled from S/360?

 

[maflynn]

Would I want some IBM pizza oven style 20-100MB "spinners" pulled from S/360?

I was a computer operator back in the day and worked on mainframes back when we had those ginormous hard drives, they were larger then refrigerators