That's impressive, and probably cost more than a family car. My first PC had a hooooge 40 meg HDD. DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.1 took up about 11 megs, then Doom and Wolfenstein brought that up to around half full. Then I eventually coughed up £80 for an ISA Soundblaster card, £140 for another 4 megs of RAM, £150 for a "Double speed CD-ROM drive" and £200 for a 400 meg HDD. Those were the days.
It's amazing how little we got for our money in retrospect. Even the incredibly basic eMachines Celeron jobbie I bought myself in the late 1990s cost the best part of a grand once all the peripherals, 15" CRT and shipping were added on. And it could do nothing. It wasn't even particularly useful for viewing porn on. That's when I started building PCs myself. I still have an old IBM 30MB hard disk at home, don't think it still works though.
I think it was nearly £200 for a 1/2 MB upgrade for an Amiga A500 way back in the day. Mind, Indianapolis 500 never looked so good. Totally worth it. I can't remember how much the A590 20MB hard drive add-on was, I never had one. It wasn't until I bought a second hand A1200 at Uni and I shoehorned in a £150 3.5" 120MB hdd that I eventually moved from floppies. The first memory card I bought for a 1.3MP Fuji digital camera was a Smartmedia 8MB card for about £40-odd.
Haha I have a 10mb 5.25" (double height) HDD somewhere at home. It was the absolute bees' knees at one time...
Best I remember was the RM Windows 98, and then 2K machines in primary school. Well I say that, the latter were actually RMs XP education program set layered in to 2K, somehow. All in all, they were pretty crappy.
Slightly off topic, but can anyone reasonably explain to me why most software companies still insist on using floppy disks as save icons despite the fact they have been obsolete as a storage medium for over a decade?
It's what people are used to, people recognise it, even if they've never used the software before. People don't like change (see W8 )
Win 98 in Primary School! You never fail at making me feel really old when I'm only 29. We had BBCs, Acorns and the odd Macintosh when I was in primary school. Lord knows why we needed any computers, we hardly ever used them and when we did we just drew scribbles and coloured them in.
What else could you use as a save icon, I mean really, anything else would be wrong. If we rent a movie from our local movie rental establishment I still say do you want to rent a video. Going back to your original point the 3.5" was the only choice for a long time, it was a universal standard and a ubiquitous. These days with so many options for storage that all look different what would you use. Plus I reckon a lot of devs are nostalgic, 1 I used to know had a 5.25" floppy stuck to the window in his office, I think it was for sentimental reasons. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
We had Windows 95 machines. We were each issued with our own personal floppy disk. However in the library there was the odd old BBC Micro in the corner with teletext on it. I realised that if you put 888 in you could get live subtitles for the channel, albeit without any pictures. We spent a few lunchtimes "reading" television until the novelty wore off
Then again, I used plenty of older stuff and still do sometimes. And Wolf, we were sharing floppy disks in high school graphics. This was last year!
