Is my old receiver a doorstop?

[navychop]

its an old computer that I have as a backup because it has a RS232 port which I need for something for use in the free to air area. My good computer doesnt have one

We have some test equipment that uses RS-232. There are USB converters to provide "RS-232" ports. They don't work very well.....

 

[dfergie]

Need to fire up my Commodores...

 

[navychop]

Need to fire up my Commodores...

You got a second one after having the first one?

 

[aaronwt6]

I believe the first computer my parents had (91' Macintosh) had a 40MB hard drive. May be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that's what it was.

 

[dfergie]

You got a second one after having the first one?

Yep... a 128D to compliment the 64...

 

[Mr Tony]

I pulled the Hard Drive out of my old 921...

same here. Its laying here. The rest of the 921 (sans remotes and UHF antenna) got thrown

 

[whatchel1]

So is the 921 HDD an IDE or a SCSI? I've never been in one and sure is way before SATA's came out.

 

[dfergie]

Mine is a 250 gig ATA Maxtor Maxline II (IDE Connection) still in the cage...

 

[whatchel1]

Mine is a 250 gig ATA Maxtor Maxline II (IDE Connection) still in the cage...

Cool just wanted to know.

 

[Silly Burrito]

OK, now you've done it. What's the smallest (in capacity) hard disk drive you have actually personally used? I'll start by dating myself. It was a DEC RK05 removable disk which, according to Wikipedia, had a 2.5MB capacity. I thought it was 5MB, but that was a few years ago...

Hard drive? Hard drives? My Vic-20 had 5 Kb of RAM and 16 Kb of ROM, and we LIKED it, mister.

 

[rufwork]

Hard drive? Hard drives? My Vic-20 had 5 Kb of RAM and 16 Kb of ROM, and we LIKED it, mister.

You forgot to mention the Datasette. Found "Hammurabi". Load Hammurabi? No. Loading... (/waiting) Found "Speedscript". Load Speedscript? etc.

 

[Derwin0]

OK, now you've done it. What's the smallest (in capacity) hard disk drive you have actually personally used? I'll start by dating myself. It was a DEC RK05 removable disk which, according to Wikipedia, had a 2.5MB capacity. I thought it was 5MB, but that was a few years ago...

First thing I had with a HDD, was when I bought a PC my Jr. year of college. I paid extra for the upgraded harddrive (from 20 GB to 40 GB). By going up to 40, I had to partian it (ah, the good old days of DOS 3.3).

Prior to that I had a C-64 and prior to that a VIC-20, no HDD on those. Even had a 300 baud modem for the C-64 in order to access local BBS's and the internet server at school.

Was extremly happy when I bought the PC (was a Tandy 1000) as it had a 1200 baud modem.

 

[Anony55]

First thing I had with a HDD, was when I bought a PC my Jr. year of college. I paid extra for the upgraded harddrive (from 20 GB to 40 GB). By going up to 40, I had to partian it (ah, the good old days of DOS 3.3).

Prior to that I had a C-64 and prior to that a VIC-20, no HDD on those. Even had a 300 baud modem for the C-64 in order to access local BBS's and the internet server at school.

Was extremly happy when I bought the PC (was a Tandy 1000) as it had a 1200 baud modem.

You mean MB, lol. We're so used to talking about HDDs in gigabytes that we almost can't even make ourselves say megabytes anymore. It'll just be a matter of time before the terabyte takes over & gigabyte becomes hard to say.

My first computer didn't have a hard drive. It didn't even have a floppy drive. Anyone remember saving & loading to/from cassette tape? I did eventually break down and spend the $$$ for an external 5-1/4" floppy for my Tandy Color Computer (but more devices would follow).

By the time my need tinker was done, I had put it in an AT tower case. I installed two 5-1/4" floppies & one 3.5" floppy (of course, the 720k type). I even built in the multi-pak interface and added speech, RS232, ORC90CC music pak, 28.8 modem, and my crowning acheivement... an 65MG hard drive. Of course I had to make a lot of parts myself. I even bought an AT keyboard adapter. Also, I did upgrade the memory to 512k (big deal at the time).

Tinkering/building was always more fun that actually using (for me).

Cheers

 

[Mr Tony]

well since folks decided to take a thread off topic with nothing to do about the original post (and the answer has been given to the actual topic at hand) I'm closing this thread