I remember when a BIG Hard Drive was 40mb

[vifferman]

Soon after that I bought my first cellphone. It was a new portable model as opposed to a car phone and was about the size of a big bike battery (and weighed as much). The battery lasted about 8 hours, it cost me $1900.00 and cost $200.00 a month in line fees plus some ridiculous amount of money to make calls. I used to love walking (or was that wanking?) up Queen St in my suit with my cell phone over my shoulder, and every now and again someone would phone me and everyone would look. God I loved it when that happened! I sold it for $500.00 to a chimney sweep.

A guy I work with used to work at IBM. He said that most of the 'early adopters' of those old brick cellphones who used them a lot (mainly to show the general hoi polloi how important they were) are now dead; despite claims to the contrary, almost all of them developed brain cancers or the like.

Was it one of these?

I was the envy of all with my luggable 'break your lap' top computer.

LOL.
We had one of those 'luggables' (but an IBM 386, IIRC) - looked like a sewing machine in its case.

[Swoop]

We still have a machine (@ work) that runs 16Mb of RAM.
Thank f*ck the programmes are tiny.

[shrub]

A guy I work with used to work at IBM. He said that most of the 'early adopters' of those old brick cellphones are now dead - despite claims to the contrary, almost all of them developed brain cancers or the like.

Mine predated the brick, the handset sat in top of the phone bit which had a shoulder strap to carry it with - it was made by that leading brand of cellphone makers, Mitsubishi. I remember when the bricks first came out - the whole phone in one compact handpiece - what technology! I worked across the road from a big car yard and all the salesmen had them and were forever walking around the yard talking on their phones, and at the local boozer they all used to plonk them on their tables and regularly make and take phone calls.

I had a mortgage and a child so I could only afford to carry mine around and pray for someone to phone me.

[Taz]

I had one of those big brick cell phones with curly cord and handset when I was a sales rep in the motorcycle industry years ago. Never took it out of the van as it was too heavy and embarrassing to carry. They replaced that with a Motorola flip phone, was still too embarrassed to pull that out in public though.

[yod]

I can still remeber just how crap my Pentium 75 was with it's 8MB hard drive and it cost close to $3000

i think you mean 8MB RAM - this would have been around '96?

[Marmoot]

40MB is not big...

5MB IS big!

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

[Big Dave]

This was THE shizzle in 1972.

[Taz]

i think you mean 8MB RAM - this would have been around '96?

Yes you're right. 8MB ram. I upgraded it from 4. Haed drive was 850 odd. Just went up to the attic and had a look . Bet the thing still runs too.

[yod]

Yes you're right. 8MB ram. I upgraded it from 4. Haed drive was 850 odd. Just went up to the attic and had a look . Bet the thing still runs too.

lol sounds like almost the exact same machine i had at the time

P75, 8M RAM , 850MB HD, 14.4modem and two big speakers built into the front of the case rofl

there was some serious time invested in warcraft 2 and red alert on that machine!!

[Taz]

Similar mine had seperate speakers and no modem. I used to dream about being able to afford a 233mhz, that was the shiz.

[Ronin]

The day when I borrowed my mates 14.4k modem to do some "serious" downloading.

[Pixie]

I remember when data storage consisted of a chisel and a rock

[Pixie]

A computer company I worked for in Chch had three washing machine sized units: one for the processor, one for the memory, and one for the mighty 1Mb hard drive, that took 3 and half hours to spin up to a stable speed. The platter weighed 57kg...

First network I worked on was Televideo - workstations had 5.25" drives, monochrome (green on black or black on green) monitors, 64kb RAM, and 4Mhz processors. The file server was a whopping 10Mb...
For all that, it actually performed well, as everything was text-based - no graphics to slow things down. Oh - and we had a W/P program: Wordstar. Heaps better than WordPerfect that replaced it, that was in turn replaced by the execrable Word. Network was all token ring - had to support it myself (learn how to run it, install cables and cards etc.) as the so-called service agents (Computerland?) didn't know much about TokenRing, which was expensive and complicated, but heaps more reliable than ethernet, until 10-Base-T came out.

Luxury!
In my day the computers had 8" floppy drives and we had to carry them on our backs all day long,
The boss would whip us to within a inch of our lives if we put them down,then he ....zzzzzzzzz

[Big Dave]

Cold chisel?

Luxury. We had t' use thooombs.

[nothingflash]

My mum always told me not to worry as size doesn't matter. Bless her...