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Old 09-13-2006, 11:32 PM   #1
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Default HD turns 50
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Old 09-13-2006, 11:56 PM   #2
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Cant imagine whole rooms full of hdd's with a total of 100meg. hehe

50years old!!
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Old 09-14-2006, 11:41 AM   #3
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50 year old technology.. it should be replaced by now.

I can't fucking wait for Solid State Flash Drives.
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Old 09-14-2006, 12:33 PM   #4
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^^^ what he said!
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Old 09-15-2006, 10:11 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by spanky
Cant imagine whole rooms full of hdd's with a total of 100meg. hehe

50years old!!
imagine that one room being the size of one hard drive ;P you could literally walk inside of your hard drive back in the day
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Old 09-15-2006, 11:46 AM   #6
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^And it still wasn't as powerful as the ones we have today.
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