Blast from the past Hard Drive... paper weight... hard drive...

[Frogman]

Sometimes I'm amazed at how much miniaturization has happened to electronics in the past 20 years.

It's a whopping 159MB MFM drive for DEC/Alpha machines. The interesting part is, they're still selling for up to 1,000 bucks. Refurbished, I'm sure. I don't see Maxtor making MFM drives anymore.

I got this mofo from a friend of mine's property. He's got about 60 Acres worth of old Government surplus. I even stumbled upon an Electron Scanning Microscope one day, there. He didn't know what it was, and it's been out in the elements for years, unfortunately, otherwise I'd have bought it.

I also tried finding some pics I snapped of an even older IBM 40MB Hard drive a friend of mine owns. The thing is about 300lbs and is liquid cooled.

 

[fastmark1993]

Holy sheit! What's your plans with it?

 

[Frogman]

~Shrug~

Put it up on Craigslist.

 

[SoonerLS]

In my "obsolete technology" display at work, I have a 10MB Seagate drive that's about that size, taken from an IBM PC-XT. At home, I have a platter from a much larger drive--it (the platter) is about 3 feet in diameter, and I'm sure it holds much less than that 10MB drive.

 

[topher5150]

When I was a kid I helped my dad move out some computers his company had that were taking up space in the vault. These things were literally the size of a file cabinet