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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2004, 04:12:43 PM »
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Get your self a DVD burner and start editing Video tapes... My wife does that and has a 100 Gig partition just for the editing buffer.....

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lol, thats one of the things ive bought myslef ..a LaCie 8xFW/USB2 drive :cool:
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Offline Roscoroo

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« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2004, 09:46:53 PM »
I traded labor on a car for my Dual k-6 cpu's(500mhz) 486 with the dual scsi drives .. that old pc is still almost fast .. It played AH1 til around ver 1.06 or so   far from usless

These days when i build a pc for someone i ussully end up with a worthless x86 box of junk though ( ive got a closet full of it)

most worthless perchase was the 1.6 applebred cpu i got for 30 bucks  darn thing only works in one pc and has been giving me fits since day 3 ..  ( i shoulda paid the 80 bucks for a 2500+)
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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2004, 11:05:10 PM »
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Have you ever found yourself buying computerstuff because its cool even if you have no real need for it?
 


Ya TrackIR.. still waiting for enhanced mode.
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« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2004, 12:14:31 AM »
Bought a Superdisk (LS-120) drive 6 years ago as a backup tool since I couldn't afford a CD burner. Got a three-pack of disks for it and proceeded to go to town. Course, at that time my rustbucket of a system only had a 3.2 gig HDD and most of that was full of stuff. So the 360 megs I could back off was pretty cool. Until I discovered the wonderful magic of the MP3 audio file! In a month I had two of those 120-meg disks full of MP3s, and number three had a few on it too. About a year after I bought it I ditched the thing in favor of a 24x CD burner. Funny thing is, I still have that LS-120 drive in the box, with disks, and it still works!



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« Reply #19 on: June 06, 2004, 03:51:20 AM »
i forget.... i did buy Sun Blade 1000 few months ago for something like 350€ ... I had no time to kick out solaris and install linux, so  we can consider it to be wasted money :D

but i will do it one day :)
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Offline AKcurly

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« Reply #20 on: June 06, 2004, 04:17:04 AM »
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Boroda's axiom: Every winchester disk gets full in two weeks.

I invented it in 1991, when I got my first machine: a 286 with a 40Mb drive. Every new drive I bought only proved it.


Hey Boroda, serious, fun question for you.  IBM coined the phrase "Winchester drive."  Do you know where they got the name?

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« Reply #21 on: June 06, 2004, 07:51:35 AM »
I picked up a Sinclar 2000 once........ 100 dollers in 1981.......

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« Reply #22 on: June 06, 2004, 12:30:52 PM »
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Hey Boroda, serious, fun question for you.  IBM coined the phrase "Winchester drive."  Do you know where they got the name?

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I have heard that the first non-removable hard disk drive made by IBM was model number 0303. Another legend I heard was that the lab that invented this drives was in a town called Winchester.

In Russian computer slang the word "winchester" is widely used, also abbrievated to "winch" or "vint" ("screw"). Soviet or Bulgarian hard drives were even called "Berdan" :)
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« Reply #23 on: June 06, 2004, 03:15:20 PM »
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I have heard that the first non-removable hard disk drive made by IBM was model number 0303. Another legend I heard was that the lab that invented this drives was in a town called Winchester.

In Russian computer slang the word "winchester" is widely used, also abbrievated to "winch" or "vint" ("screw"). Soviet or Bulgarian hard drives were even called "Berdan" :)


"Winchester technology" was the first hard drive to operate in a sealed environment.  Earlier hard drives depended on filtration systems.

The prototype consisted of two 30 meg platters.  

The rifle which won the West was manufactured by Winchester gun company ( http://www.winchester.com ).  It was a lever action, called the  "30-30."

Neat story, no idea if it's true. :)  I read it years ago in a periodical.

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« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2004, 01:57:07 PM »
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"Winchester technology" was the first hard drive to operate in a sealed environment.  Earlier hard drives depended on filtration systems.

The prototype consisted of two 30 meg platters.  

The rifle which won the West was manufactured by Winchester gun company ( http://www.winchester.com ).  It was a lever action, called the  "30-30."

Neat story, no idea if it's true. :)  I read it years ago in a periodical.

curly


Interesting :)

You know, we had the whole IBM/360 and 370 series copied as ES-EVM in USSR. I even have a diploma of an operator for such machines (perforated cards, tape storage, JCL) :) We had an old (made in 1978) ES-1022, it had 29Mb removable disk drives, 11 platters (10 surfaces). Later machines had 300Mb removable disks. They were called DASD (Direct access storage devices).

First Winchester drives I used were 5 and 10Mb Bulgarian copies of IBM devices, used in ES-1839 "ES-TEL" PC-compatibles. In fact they were similar to PC-370 8088-based PC terminals for System/370. Soviet ES-1841 machines used Seagate ST-225 disks manufactured in India under license. They had a great MFM controller, a huge PC board with Soviet Z80 clone and even had something like 32Kb RAM :)

Most affordable PC-compatible machine in late-80s was "Poisk", a copy of IBM PCjr made in Ukraine :) I bet IBM didn't sell as much PCjr's as Poisks :) I had an opportunity to see an original PCjr once, and everything including cassete slots were the same as in Poisk. You can't imagine what things people have done with Poisks here: installing an MFM hard drive, floppies, VGA video - on a machine that didn't have DMA! Installing NEC V20 at stunning 10MHz instead of a Soviet 8088 clone! Oh, that was the time :)
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« Reply #25 on: June 07, 2004, 02:25:40 PM »
Bought a 5 mb "Profile" hard drive for my Apple 3 @ $2500 so I could run Great Plains Accounting. Talk about masochistic....

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« Reply #26 on: June 07, 2004, 02:29:30 PM »
lol....love your avatar Horn :D
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« Reply #27 on: June 07, 2004, 04:42:14 PM »
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lol....love your avatar Horn :D


bring your smile in white sweater back ! :D
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« Reply #28 on: June 07, 2004, 04:48:15 PM »
Zip Drive was the most useless POS of computer equipment that I have ever bought. Sure it had 100MB of storage ability and at the time that was great but if I wanted to trade/give a buddy some files I usually had to break down and pull out my Zip drive and take it and the cables to his house and install that before putting the files on their computers and getting what I wanted. Another useless item for me was a Creative soundcard with Firewire connections on it. I don't own a single thing with Firewire capability and most likely never will.
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« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2004, 06:31:02 AM »
Hm. I know at least five firms where I supplied or supported computers that use Zip-100, Zip-250 and Fujitsu DynaMO removable drives. Usual purpose is to store "confidential" accounting information.

Another client wanted an external hard drive to store such things. I offered an external case and a firewire adapter. Before that purchase they had all confidential info on SCSI drives in "mobile racks". They had a huge hammer in their server room to destroy the disks physically just in case ;)

I have heard that on of the "military" laptops ordered by Defence ministry they had an F1 hand grenade as "emergency self-destruction unit" inside the case, with the pin sticking out of keyboard panel ;)
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