Technology - Then and Now

[Tharic-Nar]

Computers are found in more homes and businesses than ever before and have become such a large part of daily life that they are often forgotten about until they become unavailable. I personally like to refer to this as the golden age of computing, simply because of the level of accessibility, low cost and high performance we are now seeing.

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[Kougar]

That photo gives entirely new meaning to swapping out the hard disk, or putting two together in RAID.

 

[On_Wisconsin]

I recognize this isn't too long ago, but I remember my tech friend and I drooling over 1TB HDDs (2006ish). Also remember Battleship Mtron like it was yesterday!

On the RAMAC, just imagine designing that thing from scratch

 

[Optix]

I remember geeking out about 1TB drives back then and how they would never come down in price enough for me to buy one...oops.

 

[Kougar]

I remember geeking out about 1TB drives back then and how they would never come down in price enough for me to buy one...oops.

...or ever imagining I could actually have a need for one of them, let alone two...

 

[Optix]

Haha! Too true.

1TB? Oh, I'll NEVER fill that.

 

[Psi*]

I played snipes on a Novell network built up of IBM PS2s.

 

[Tharic-Nar]

There was a mass of images to go with this, but had to make do with one. Steampunk eat-your-heart out with some... pneumatic disc heads and latches... high speed metal discs, lots of pipes...

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH0350B.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH11-52.html
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3850C.html

Not all part of the 305, but you get the idea... Shame about Drums... they would look soooo cool in the modern office...

Is that a nuclear reactor? Why no... it's my porn movie stash...

 

[Kougar]

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3850C.html

Is that a nuclear reactor? Why no... it's my porn movie stash...

Seriously, you aren't kidding. The image in that one URL looks exactly like some nuclear reactor's I've seen images of, except just vertical and done in honeycomb.

Now that photo looks more realistic as a nuclear fission device than many movie props.