And Number Munchers, Classic Concentration, Oregon Trail
firedrakes
hdd.. what that?
(before ssd)
Watcherxp
lol, noob
lcseds
My first hard drive was a 40 MB Seagate. Took 6 hours to format with my Tandy 1000. Yep, I’m old.
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Strike that, it was a 20 MB.
SterquilinusPoo
Phhttt… half height IDE? Full height RLL/MFM here.
GlitteringRelease77
I was there brother. “Did I kink the cable? I think I kinked the cable…”
Optimal_Serve_8980
Bazinga years ago for me lol
taix8664
I’m not old enough to have built with IDE myself, but I know what it is and have seen it in person.
father2shanes
I started with pc building right when they started getting rid of those ugly ketchup and mustard ribbon cords.
trace-evidence
I remember how exciting it was when the $100 16k RAM module arrived for the Sinclair pc my dad and I built together.
TrickyWoo86
The first PC I got hands on inside was a 386 Amstrad MegaPC.
50% PC, 50% MegaDrive, 100% awesome
asharwood101
I still got a 5.5” and 3.5” floppy drive.
Medium-Run-9701
PATA before SATA, S.M.A.R.T. was a feature that not all had, and RAID 0 VS RAID 1 meant something. But how do you get the RGB to work with Molex?
Ronyx2021
I know what it is. I’ve never had the pleasure of installing one.
nightfoxjr
Heh, anyone know how to hook this up to a modern system? I have some family photos on one of these drives, but idk how to connect it yo my pc, ant ideas?
No_Lynx_4470
Then you should know we dont care.
prolapsepros
I had to buy a kit and cut my own window in the side of my case
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Back when you had to set a Master and Slave drive manually with pins…. I was there … 3000 years ago.
The Maxtor! Hell yeah.
ATA33, 66, or 100?
I know these from my dads old pc’s IDE HDD’s if i remember correctly
me too bro
*Two* jumpers? That’s odd.
Never cable select. It works fine until you have some strange drive and motherboard combo where it works 98 percent of the time.
Man it took me a long time to figure out why sometimes my drives would just not be recognised when booting. Never used CS after that again.
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.aveA71bZWmpYLDoarySyPwAAAA?dpr=3&pid=ImgDetMain
This old
Command & Conquer on MS-DOS
And Number Munchers, Classic Concentration, Oregon Trail
hdd.. what that?
(before ssd)
lol, noob
My first hard drive was a 40 MB Seagate. Took 6 hours to format with my Tandy 1000. Yep, I’m old.
​
Strike that, it was a 20 MB.
Phhttt… half height IDE? Full height RLL/MFM here.
I was there brother. “Did I kink the cable? I think I kinked the cable…”
Bazinga years ago for me lol
I’m not old enough to have built with IDE myself, but I know what it is and have seen it in person.
I started with pc building right when they started getting rid of those ugly ketchup and mustard ribbon cords.
I remember how exciting it was when the $100 16k RAM module arrived for the Sinclair pc my dad and I built together.
The first PC I got hands on inside was a 386 Amstrad MegaPC.
50% PC, 50% MegaDrive, 100% awesome
I still got a 5.5” and 3.5” floppy drive.
PATA before SATA, S.M.A.R.T. was a feature that not all had, and RAID 0 VS RAID 1 meant something. But how do you get the RGB to work with Molex?
I know what it is. I’ve never had the pleasure of installing one.
Heh, anyone know how to hook this up to a modern system? I have some family photos on one of these drives, but idk how to connect it yo my pc, ant ideas?
Then you should know we dont care.
I had to buy a kit and cut my own window in the side of my case