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 It's 1997! (found an ad) | Retro Guy |
 Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | Byrl Raze Buckbriar |
 Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | Retro Guy |
| Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | Computer Nerd Kev |
  Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | Retro Guy |
| Re: Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | prysm1 |
| Re: Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) | Computer Nerd Kev |
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3 1/2-inch full-height
Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
Retail: $1499.00
Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
Bytes per Sector: 512
Sectors per Track: Variable
Cylinders: 3,956
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Retro Guy
On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
> 3 1/2-inch full-height
> Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
> Retail: $1499.00
> Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
> Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
> Bytes per Sector: 512
> Sectors per Track: Variable
> Cylinders: 3,956
>
> --
> Retro Guy
I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's dollars that would be like $1500 or more.
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>
>> 3 1/2-inch full-height
>> Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
>> Retail: $1499.00
>> Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
>> Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
>> Bytes per Sector: 512
>> Sectors per Track: Variable
>> Cylinders: 3,956
>>
>> --
>> Retro Guy
>
> I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's dollars that would be like $1500 or more.
Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed that big new
har drive. Now I just buy what I want :)
Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 3 1/2-inch full-height
>>> Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
>>> Retail: $1499.00
>>> Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
>>> Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
>>> Bytes per Sector: 512
>>> Sectors per Track: Variable
>>> Cylinders: 3,956
>>
>> I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive
>> was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's
>> dollars that would be like $1500 or more.
>
> Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed
> that big new har drive.
I decided I didn't. I'm posting this now from a slightly older PC
with a 2,111MB HDD. IDE though, not SCSI.
> Now I just buy what I want :)
Like with this old PC (bought second-hand from a school), I
find the gear people are getting rid of more than sufficient. I
recently upgraded to using a 500GB USB HDD for storing videos,
bought second-hand at a market for $5 sometime pre-COVID. I did
keep one 4TB SATA HDD from a used NAS I parted out a couple of
years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?
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On 15 Feb 2025 09:03:38 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
>>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 3 1/2-inch full-height
>>>> Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
>>>> Retail: $1499.00
>>>> Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
>>>> Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
>>>> Bytes per Sector: 512
>>>> Sectors per Track: Variable
>>>> Cylinders: 3,956
>>>
>>> I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive
>>> was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's
>>> dollars that would be like $1500 or more.
>>
>> Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed
>> that big new har drive.
>
> I decided I didn't. I'm posting this now from a slightly older PC
> with a 2,111MB HDD. IDE though, not SCSI.
>
>> Now I just buy what I want :)
>
> Like with this old PC (bought second-hand from a school), I
> find the gear people are getting rid of more than sufficient. I
> recently upgraded to using a 500GB USB HDD for storing videos,
> bought second-hand at a market for $5 sometime pre-COVID. I did
> keep one 4TB SATA HDD from a used NAS I parted out a couple of
> years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
> I need all that storage for?
I have a lot of old pc parts laying around. I'm not even sure what I have,
but I'm sure I could build numerous old pcs from the parts. I just haven't
found a reason to yet and I don't want to dispose of the stuff.
Maybe I'll go to the next Hamfest and sell a bunch of it. It goes pretty
well there.
<snip>
>years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
>I need all that storage for?
i heard a few people has petabytes of
tv shows and movies in there nas.
..and files are only getting bigger.
with the videos files 4k etc.
good thing my tv is still a 19" 4:3
crt :)
prysm1 <prysm1@cw.qc.to> wrote:
> <snip>
>>years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
>>I need all that storage for?
>
> i heard a few people has petabytes of
> tv shows and movies in there nas.
>
> .and files are only getting bigger.
> with the videos files 4k etc.
>
> good thing my tv is still a 19" 4:3
> crt :)
25" CRT here! I download the lowest resolution from YouTube or
convert other video files down to similar resolution. If I were
forced to only use 4K video files I just wouldn't bother keeping so
much. Besides needing lots of huge HDDs, just the overhead of doing
things like backups would be way more hassle.
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