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  • thomasX, on 11/07/2007, -10/+59Dupe.
    • drizzlelicious, on 11/04/2007, -0/+26understatement.
    • jackyyll, on 11/06/2007, -2/+36Older than the internet itself.... Literally....
    • svivian, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2I think someone needs to learn how to use their scanner.
  • Rockmaninoff, on 11/06/2007, -41/+10DO WANT.
    • latrosicarius, on 11/05/2007, -5/+34This isn't 4chan. Go down the road and take a left.
  • Burritoking924, on 11/07/2007, -8/+138(714) 271-8730. I wonder if I should call and inquire about this hard disk drive. It seems to satisfy my needs, but I think I'll go with the 11MB model just to be sure.
    • JudgeMonkey, on 11/06/2007, -0/+54pfft, if you really have that kind of money to throw around. But really, what could you possibly use all that space for?
      • capiCrimm, on 11/05/2007, -0/+38ASCII Porn.
      • dragon76, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8It's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of that old DOS video format, it was like, grasshopper or something, or the grasp interpreter. I had a LOT of "videos" in that format when I was in high school mainly because playing video on a computer was so cool.
        • cliffzdude, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3Are you thinking of how you downloaded the videos? (kermit)
      • juicebag, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3or 3 songs.
    • Nougat, on 11/06/2007, -0/+39This one goes to eleven.
      • capiCrimm, on 11/04/2007, -1/+17Why don’t you just make 10 bigger and make 10 be the top number, and make that a little bigger?
    • luckyplatypus, on 11/07/2007, -2/+36I dialed it and I got some guy's answering machine. His name is Mike.
      • xsquirrel378x, on 11/06/2007, -0/+12did you leave a message?
        • Audacitor, on 11/06/2007, -1/+20I did:

          "Hey Mike, this is...someone...from Digg.com. That's d-i-double-g.com. You got dugg. I give you my sympathies, because not all the other people calling this are gonna be nice like me. Later."
          • NorthKorea, on 11/04/2007, -0/+7i called him from Korea.... left a message and where i was calling from..... i encourage you to do the same - esp. if you'd be calling from outside the states....
          • VegaObscura3, on 11/05/2007, -0/+8And make sure the call is collect.
          • evnglion, on 11/04/2007, -1/+5yeah I have been calling him too... Mike is gonna be pissed. I gave him my phone number, hopefully he will call me back so I can get this 10mb HDD pronto! I even told him I could wire the money ASAP!... lol... this guy is probably gonna have to change his number, I can only imagine how many calls he has gotten so far.
      • yacks, on 11/07/2007, -0/+7too bad San Diego isn't in the 714 anymore.. :) it's 619.. you fools are calling some unsuspecting person.. by that I mean you should try the 619 number :)
        • luckyplatypus, on 11/07/2007, -0/+6Adjusting for the area code change, I got this: "The number you have reached is not in service. This is a recording."
      • gavintlgold, on 11/06/2007, -0/+7"You have... fifteen thousand... new voice messages.... First voice message...."
      • Zarthia, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Poor mike will be getting lots of phone calls.
    • Lyght, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5It's not even a San Diego number anymore, 714 hasn't been in San Diego since 1982. And it's been getting smaller. Now it's all North Orange County.

      Meaning this ad is definitely but unsurprisingly older than 1982.
    • Insidious4, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3But can I order by modem?
  • jmgoody311, on 11/08/2007, -5/+151My god, I could store so... many... characters!!!

    *drool........*
    • Bdog2g2, on 11/04/2007, -0/+6and 1 mp3
      • Zalyster, on 11/05/2007, -2/+6No, 2 or 3. They don't need to be 320 kb/s...
    • WhiteHamster, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1pfft, digital music?
    • knightcrusader, on 11/05/2007, -0/+1Okay, but are they considering a KB/MB to be 1024 KB/MB, or 1000? Who knows how far back the hard drive manufacturers have been screwing us out of our 24 bytes per kilobyte?
  • fatadamblog, on 11/07/2007, -5/+143Wow 10 whole MB you'll never fill that much space!
    • RadicalEdward, on 11/05/2007, -7/+39I bet you'll never need more than 64kb of memory either.... Oh...wait...
      • driftwood07, on 11/05/2007, -13/+19haha back when i saw this on digg last time i made this and put it on my dorm room door : http://i4.tinypic.com/66xyhbd.jpg (our room was 735)
        • TBobes, on 11/05/2007, -4/+8you're lying, that was in the pic directory, but nice try...
      • Nougat, on 11/04/2007, -0/+8The original quote referred to 640K, but that's all right.
        • astrosmash, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1No mention of IBM, Microsoft, or MS-DOS in that ad. That's how old it is. Z80 + CP/M machines of the day were running 64 kB of RAM, at most.
  • PerfektXj, on 11/05/2007, -13/+6ill take 20
    • Phil1ip123, on 11/04/2007, -1/+2Sure. Now all I need is your credit card number.
  • badjoke, on 11/08/2007, -4/+146Sign me up for 2. I'm putting those bad boys in raid.
    • Dokument, on 11/05/2007, -0/+27raid 0 for faster porn, 8 bit porn
    • potifar, on 11/05/2007, -0/+10If RAID means Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives, that's by definitition impossible with these drives.
      • Firehed, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1At the time, that was pretty cheap. The first hard drives cost several million dollars (with half the capacity and taking up almost as much space as a washing machine)
      • dragon76, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4I believe they've re-christened RAID as Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
        • Lyph5, on 11/04/2007, -0/+0You have that backwards. It used to be independent but now it's inexpensive, since HDDs are so cheap now.
    • MrSketch, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2That's probably not a bad idea to get two or maybe even more, since it appears there are bulk discounts.
  • lidri, on 11/04/2007, -26/+11old....
  • scapeunit, on 11/08/2007, -6/+9110mb! of porn! ? :(
    • latrosicarius, on 11/04/2007, -2/+18dug for your frownie face
    • NeoPlatonist, on 11/10/2007, -0/+20Wow, I can finally store my massive collection of ascii porn in one place!
      • PhaseSix, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0Haha...I Think you just might be able to!
    • Flashman, on 11/04/2007, -0/+7(.)(.)
    • mikev, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4You'll finish before it will. :P
    • Ravenhaft, on 11/04/2007, -0/+7( o Y o ) boobays. Or an owl. Hoot.
    • mishsquish, on 11/05/2007, -0/+5Midget porn. You can fit in a little more.
    • vertinox, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Back then... It was all ASCII porn so you could fit a lot.
  • InSectWar, on 11/07/2007, -7/+15Nice! When i get this Im going to run a pair in a RAID configuration... striped.
  • aahamedi, on 11/08/2007, -0/+82Dugg for poor mike whos going to be getting many many calls because of that number
  • LastSight, on 11/05/2007, -2/+20i cant afford it....must......steal.....
    • silfiriel, on 11/04/2007, -3/+2while you're at it, steal a flash stick or a whole pack, it's easier.
  • adventflux, on 11/05/2007, -1/+55They'll be laughing about us in 50 years. So I'll start now, you're cramping my style.
    • uziko, on 11/05/2007, -1/+17True, this webpage will probably be on a site like digg and they will laugh at all our comments. "500 gigs for $100 dollars haha I need a couple of those bad boys to RAID0 with lol."
      • tehbored, on 11/05/2007, -0/+17No it'll be on the ubernet which is beamed straight into people's heads at 100Gb/s.
      • GopherChucks, on 11/05/2007, -1/+7They're more likely to say, "Ooohhh, 100$! That's cute!" "Hey, that was a lot of money back then." Given our current economic trend in the states.
    • MrTankJump, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6Crazy thing is that it won't even be 50 years before you laugh at the price/size/capacity of storage nowadays. It will be about 15 years, assuming of course that we're not in the matrix by then.
      • ChromaVita, on 11/04/2007, -0/+6You mean OUT OF the matrix by then?
        • Lyph5, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1There's actually been studies done on that, and the conclusions that have been reached are quite interesting. As it turns out there's a 50% chance that we're currently in a computer simulation. That's from a REAL study done by REAL smart guys being paid to research this stuff.
      • YourDoom123, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1I'd say less then that... I think it was 5 years ago 100 gig hard drives were considered huge, and already we've got 1tb drives...
  • dillyhoo, on 11/10/2007, -3/+347Haha! Technology was less advanced in previous generations!
  • riverstyx, on 11/07/2007, -3/+14Wow for 10mb I could store about 2 songs. What a deal at 3.5 grand.

    They're not too far from me, I think I'll call and ask if its still in stock.

    Back in the golden age of C64, 10mb was unheard of. Someone posted on here a few months back about this gigantic harddrive, I tried googling but no luck.
    • Firehed, on 11/04/2007, -0/+10Hm... maybe that's where the RIAA gets their lawsuit pricing ideas.
    • Salgat, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3Try that in MIDI my good sir.
    • Ravenhaft, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4Call and chat with Mike! I don't think he's answering his phone anymore. Leave a message.
    • N4KMM, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1I believe you are looking for the Winchester hard drive. They were about the size of a small microwave.
  • NovaCloud, on 11/04/2007, -18/+910 years from now, we'll look back and laugh at the time we thought 100gb was a lot.
    • geneikillua, on 11/05/2007, -1/+54I can laugh at you right now for thinking 100 gb is a lot.

      ...
      HAHA!
    • DarkDx, on 11/05/2007, -2/+21Replace 100gb with 1 terabyte and you're right otherwise... dugg down.
    • Myonosken, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Are you in 2002? My PC's *****, from 2004, and came with 300gb.
  • colonelcupcake, on 11/04/2007, -9/+3Oh... my... God...
  • BossKey, on 11/05/2007, -0/+45wait...TEN* megabytes? That has got to be a lot of Libraries of Congress. Hard to believe!

    *Actual formatted capacity is less.
    • brentinkc, on 11/05/2007, -2/+16dugg for the asterisk
      • bcat, on 11/04/2007, -1/+3Dugg for the use of the funny, if slightly annoying, "dugg for" meme.
        • theone3, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4Dugg for the ironic use of the funny, if slightly annoying, "dugg for" meme.
          • brentinkc, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2Does this remind anyone else of the painting that hangs above colbert's fireplace?
          • Sonizel, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1yes
    • HerrEisenheim, on 11/05/2007, -3/+19Actually, it's somewhat of a misnomer that "actual capacity" is a result of formatting. Formatting doesn't actually take up a lot of space. When you get a 500GB HDD, and you look at it in an OS it seems to only have 465GB+/-. That's not a result of formatting, per se, but rather a result of the conversion from base-10 to base-2 (binary). HDD manufacturers do not use the binary. Technically, they are correct. A 500GB HDD does indeed give you 500GB (gigabytes) of base-10 storage. What you are actually interested in is how many GiB, or gibibytes, in base-2 that is.

      To move from base-10 to base-2 you can multiply by .93. So 10 megabytes in base-10 would be about 9300 kibibytes in base-2.
      • molochi, on 11/04/2007, -1/+10A gigabyte is 1024 MB which is 1024 KB which is 1024 bytes. I can understand joe the sales guy not understanding this. But I don't need a new word to describe 1073741824 bytes just because HD manufacturers think it's ok to lie about the size of their drives. No one was confused about memory sizes because memory manufacturers didn't lie about how much memory you were getting. No one lied about how much cache was on your CPU. No one lied about how much memory was on your video card. No one lied about how much space your programs were going to take up on that hard drive. But because HDD manufacturers want to make up their own word that redefines everything else, just so they don't have to look like their drive is smaller than the other lying company, I'm supposed to start saying "gibibyte"... Well, ***** You. Seagate lost that one and is mailing checks.

        • Lyph5, on 11/04/2007, -0/+050% incorrect.

          A gigabyte or Gbyte (derived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage meaning either 1000³ bytes or 1024³ bytes (1000³ = one billion). The usage of the word "gigabyte" is ambiguous, depending on the context.

          As of 2007, most consumer hard drives are defined by their gigabyte-range capacities. The true capacity is usually some number above or below the class designation. Although most manufacturers of hard disks and Flash disks define 1 gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes, the computer operating systems used by most users usually calculate a gigabyte by dividing the bytes (whether it is disk capacity, file size, or system RAM) by 1,073,741,824.
      • richardhenry, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1I think my brain just melted. That's awesome though.
      • ConceptJunkie, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1It's roughly 0.931 for gigabytes, but 0.953 for megabytes, and 0.976 for kilobytes, etc.

        Fortunately one byte is one byte in base 10 _or_ base 2. :-)
  • n0t0kayipr0mis3, on 11/05/2007, -2/+1210 MB! that's like three and a half songs!

    What an age we live in!
    • DarkDx, on 11/04/2007, -5/+73 and halfs song? What the hell? Looks like people don't care about quality these days, that would be like 64kbps mp3s. ACC-dor-ipod + FLAC-for-hifi-setups FTW!
    • Fracture98, on 11/07/2007, -0/+7Yeah. I've got one of these puppies in my aPod.
      The car battery is a bit inconvenient, but over 10 minutes of play time is nothing to sneeze at.
  • SNIPE07, on 11/08/2007, -4/+27dude i thought my 1.2GB HDD was old.
    • brentinkc, on 11/05/2007, -0/+45It is.
    • silfiriel, on 11/05/2007, -2/+20oh, make no mistake about it, IT'S OLD!!!
    • Daniel15, on 11/05/2007, -0/+12Not as old as my ~350 MB drive. Still works, too =]
      • Firehed, on 11/04/2007, -0/+9I'm sure I have a screenshot somewhere of the "0 bytes free" drive properties on a drive about 200MB. Yes, I had to delete stuff to save the file.
      • daza, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4I too have a 200MB WD drive that works somewhere. Just had to tell you :)
        • Daniel15, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Heh, nice :)
          I've got a 70 MB hard drive (originally used in a 286), but it's got some crazy connector at the back (actually, two of them). It looks like the connector on the old 5.25 inch floppy drives. Anyone know what this connector is called?
      • renegade334, on 11/04/2007, -0/+7There comes a time in every geek/nerds life when he looks around the room at all the cables and hard drives and says to himself "what have I done with my life?"
    • ubergeek09, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1It's old..
  • SmackMyMac, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6This thing probably doesn't even have level one cache. It's like 1/3 level cache. 5Kb
    • cesclaveria, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1I'm pretty sure the level one cache is not on the HDD.
      The cache memories are used in the CPU(s)
    • carpespasm, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1if it had any it would have likely been on the controller card rather than the drive itself.
  • BattMatt, on 11/04/2007, -0/+4Fun article, but, circa....when? I didn't see a date on it....did I miss it?
    • astrosmash, on 11/05/2007, -0/+6Early 80s. That's when the Z80 processor and CP/M operating system ruled the day.

      IBM had intended to license the CP/M operating system for their newly-designed IBM PCs in 1981, but they couldn't agree on the contract.

      In the '70s, IBM originally dismissed the concept of a "personal computer", but after the success of the Apple II (and others) IBM was in a rush to get their PC out the door by 1981. They constructed it out of mostly generic parts, which allowed other companies to easily create IBM PC clones, and instead of negotiating a CP/M license, a young Bill Gates convinced IBM to go with a quick-and-dirty CP/M knock-off written by a single person and purchased by Microsoft.

      That operating system would become Vista. And IBM no longer makes PCs.
    • lvflashguru, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3Well the ad lists a San Diego address with a 714 area code. That puts it pre November 1982 which is when the 714 area code split and San Diego became 619.
  • sputnike, on 11/05/2007, -16/+10Oh please... my processor has more cache than that. Oh wait... so does my phone, mp3 player, cd's, computers, tv, washing machine, microwave, kettle (I have a very cool kettle that shoots lasers into the water :-)
    • badjoke, on 11/05/2007, -1/+23But not your bank account.
    • grimjestor, on 11/05/2007, -1/+6i... want your kettle?

      why does that sound dirty?
  • plundstedt, on 11/10/2007, -3/+94Anyone else find this pic in his directory?

    http://www.rawimages.org/stuff/05_pics.jpg
  • Cheesasaurus, on 11/04/2007, -9/+1Hopefully they made a 10 MB iPod! That would be so awesome!
    • ShinRaTDR, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2Why?
      • grimjestor, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Really... who would need a 10mb iPOD... ? what are you going to do, rip all of your cassette tapes or something?
  • thewindfish, on 11/04/2007, -4/+5Kinda funny, but does stuff like this really need to get posted every few days? I mean, we know that in the past disk storage was a lot more expensive and limited than it is now. Do we really need to post old computer ads to remind us of that?
    • Psythik, on 11/04/2007, -1/+2This ***** never gets old for me.
    • samzklub, on 11/04/2007, -1/+3Why click if you weren't interested? Obviously many people still find them interesting. I was probably 2 when then came out so it is awesome to see where we came from.
  • varun1s, on 11/05/2007, -1/+11I'm laughing now....but I know I probably would be laughing at my own 400gb hdd down the road.
    • banmaster, on 11/06/2007, -8/+3You only have 400Gb? Thats freaking pathetic!
  • sputnike, on 11/05/2007, -10/+2Oh please... my processor has more cache than that thing. Oh wait, so does my computer, phone, microwave, washing machine, the coins in my pocket with tracking devices and kettle. (I have a very cool kettle that has like lasers that shoot into the water, honest :-)
  • skater2968, on 11/04/2007, -1/+7My dads asking... When is this ad from?
  • Protonz, on 11/04/2007, -6/+1Gotta love the 'Law of Accelerating Returns':
    http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html?pr ...
  • silfiriel, on 11/04/2007, -1/+9there will come a time when people will be posting "the hard disc you've been waiting for 160Gigs 100$" and my oh my, they'll be laughing their asses of.
    • Psythik, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1We already are laughing at that.
      • silfiriel, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1yeah and this is the same reply to a few comments here, not funny anymore. get over it.
    • BossKey, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1People were laughing a few months ago when the latest 160GB iPod classic came out. There were a bunch of posts along the lines of "The new iPod, it has a bigger hard disk than my new laptop."
    • ubergeek09, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1A 160 gig hard drive for $100 is horrible, you can get 500 gig hard drives for $110 on Newegg.
  • cawfee, on 11/05/2007, -0/+4Preordered on Newegg! A must-have.
  • ItsMyWii, on 11/04/2007, -0/+3YES!!! The infinite possibilities!
  • swordedge, on 11/04/2007, -1/+6This will date me but I remember wanting a radio shack 5MB hard drive for $4995. It was full height (to drive bays tall on todays computer). Considering everybody was using two floppies back then, 5 Meg was humongous.
  • tsalti, on 11/08/2007, -0/+29And yet we are still storing our information on rotating plates.
    • archlich, on 11/05/2007, -0/+7We do that because it's still cheap.
    • tetsuwan, on 11/05/2007, -0/+2Well, at least we are using giant magnetoresistance to improve the performance of our rotating disks.They hardly new about that back then.
    • flarn2006, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1And memory chips inside keychain devices.
    • ubergeek09, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1In the next few years we will probably be using SSDs (solid state drives) there are a few available right now but they are very expensive. But they are extremely durable, last much longer than HDDs and are much faster!
  • soil, on 11/10/2007, -7/+6"circle 405 on inquiry card"

    more like "404"
  • potifar, on 11/05/2007, -1/+5I'm not convinced until I see some benchmarks.
    • Fracture98, on 11/05/2007, -0/+11Put that on a bench and it'd definitely leave marks.
  • CrookedAsterisk, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1310MB ought to be enough for anybody.
  • adarahsia, on 11/04/2007, -6/+0I just downloaded Cooliris previews for firefox. It worked.
    Why did'nt I know about it sooner?
  • phaedoHD, on 11/04/2007, -4/+2This one's about $100 more for a 10 MB hard drive, you found a sweet deal there!
    http://www.ratemyeverything.net/post/3151/10_Megab ...
    • grimjestor, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1Eh, it would appear that our old friend Mike is a rarity... I tried to call the number on your advertisement, but got a "not in service" announcement.
      ...Mike is famous. What a lucky person. Riches soon follow. Heh.
    • DriftAway, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1And it's a refurb at that.
  • Myztry, on 11/05/2007, -0/+12Phew. The most I ever paid for a HardDrive was $600 for 20Meg (1989 - Commodore Amiga). And I remember some manufacturer donated a 1 Gig drive worth $10,000 to a teenager with a successful BBS. Distinctly remember laughing about how they'd never fill it.... DOH
    These days I'm laughing (or crying) about my 3 year old PC, and how outdated it is... And how it doesn't perform that much better than my Amiga 500 with it's 20Gig HD and 512k of RAM.... Hmmmmmm
    • UrinalPooper, on 11/05/2007, -1/+8Maybe you shouldn't have installed Vista...
      • Myztry, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1LOL. I did that a few months before release (at the right price). Before removing it 6 months later after giving it a fair trial. It just wasn't worth the hard drive space.
        Now I'm purely a Ubuntu person at home. Which is funny because I'm at this very moment installing Ubuntu on my box at work. Finally got MYOB figured. Asta La Vista - Windows.
        Considering how much hardware has advanced, nothing comes close to the raw efficiency that the Amiga achieved. 7Mhz processor and all.
    • Morky, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1I don't think you could even find a 20GB in hard drive in 2004. Are you sure you computer isn't more like 7 or 8 years old?
  • ledguitar, on 11/05/2007, -2/+6It's very green. It only uses 20 watts of power.
  • phaedoHD, on 11/04/2007, -1/+26mirror: http://www.ratemyeverything.net/post/5216/10_MB_Ha ...
  • jynweythek, on 09/17/2008, -2/+10I don't really need 10 mb so I'll save $500 and go with the 5 mb instead.
  • Woodygenius, on 11/05/2007, -2/+5How come the add doesn't have an email or web address? awwwwww darnit!
  • ThreeDee912, on 11/04/2007, -8/+2Just in case:
    http://bayimg.com/gAHclAABO
  • RegalGSX, on 11/05/2007, -2/+17We had a 10MB hard drive in our IBM XT. You could hear the thing writing data from another room.
    • ConceptJunkie, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2And you could probably pick out individual bits from the sound... ;-)
  • chat4funnfun, on 11/04/2007, -0/+2mirror!
    http://fileegg.com/imageview.php?quickkey=F1692E9C ...
  • bonkeykong, on 11/04/2007, -1/+1Technology has greatly improved and reduced in cost in a short period of time.
  • McInternet, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1And you'll fill all that space keeping track of how often this is frontpaged.
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