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02-01-2007, 08:02 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | My New External Hard Drive
A few weeks ago, I picked up an External HDD enclosure. I was gonna drop in an old 5GB HDD, but I had to put it into another machine so I could format it. I haven't gotten around to swapping it back over. Well, the other day I was diggin' through some old boxes and found a 2.5GB HDD, so I used dropped that one in the enclosure instead. How long has it been since you've seen a HDD so tiny?
I'm thinkin' about sellin' it on ebay. How much you think I'll get for it.  | |
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02-01-2007, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Milwaukistan, WI Age: 31 | I'll give ya a dollar and picture of Wendy. | |
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02-01-2007, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: San Diego Age: 38 | Heh...Found an old 300 MEG HD from a seriously old mac in my garage a week or so ago...Of course I also have the original external HD from my Apple IIgs.
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02-01-2007, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Lynchburg, Va PSN ID: D_Litch
Wii ID: 7729 0303 2212 9513
| While we're talking about old stuff:
I have a AOL 1.0 install floppy from like 97'. It makes my skin burn to touch it. | |
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02-01-2007, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SoCal Age: 36 PSN ID: Peench
Wii ID: 5757 7273 0641 1996
|  that's awesome zoom! Man, I remember paying someone to upgrade the RAM on my machine from 256 to 512KB!! Those were the days! The old BBS's and great games like Zork and Tetris and Monkey Island. Fun times! | |
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02-02-2007, 08:40 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | I remember when I bought that 5GB HDD, and the guy who installed it said, "You'll never fill that up!" He also added an additional 8MB of RAM so it'd run faster when running Windows 95.  | |
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02-02-2007, 08:41 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kirkland, Wa Age: 40 | ok, here is fun one... 
Bill Gates Autographed copy of Windows 95.  | |
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02-02-2007, 09:31 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tustin, CA Age: 26 PSN ID: Aetherhole
Wii ID: 5761 3691 3663 1313
| Haha, this thread had me searching and I found my 450MB Hard Drive! Hahaha, I was like, "none of my games will even fit on this hard drive!!! Only 2 or 3 HD Trailers could even fit on here!!" classic! | |
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02-02-2007, 10:18 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SoCal Age: 36 PSN ID: Peench
Wii ID: 5757 7273 0641 1996
| That's awesome Dmill! Wow, back when Win95 was released, I was working on PC's and Macs! Good times. | |
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02-02-2007, 10:59 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kirkland, Wa Age: 40 | I think it is funny mostly becuase it Windows 95 was mostly sold via floppies... This one was the cd-rom version... | |
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02-02-2007, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Milwaukistan, WI Age: 31 | Relics! | |
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02-02-2007, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SoCal Age: 36 PSN ID: Peench
Wii ID: 5757 7273 0641 1996
| Good point. I think I still have my Windows 3.11 discs! If I can find them I'll take a photo of them. | |
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02-15-2007, 03:50 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Age: 41 Wii ID: ??? I can't remember it...
| I've still got my Franklin Ace 1000 sitting in my closet. My first computer!! Circa 1982!
1MHz and 64K RAM  | |
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03-05-2007, 07:56 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Age: 37 | I finally got around to picking up a "real" HDD this weekend. I grabbed a Western Digital 320GB EIDE Internal drive. I'm gonna swap this one out for the 2.5GB HDD (mentioned in the first post) in my External Enclosure. One question about this, assuming this new drive isn't yet formatted, should I format it with NTFS or FAT? IIRC, FAT is limited at only 32GB, right? So, does that narrow it down for me? | |
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03-05-2007, 08:28 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kirkland, Wa Age: 40 | Quote:
Originally Posted by ZoomZoom71  I finally got around to picking up a "real" HDD this weekend. I grabbed a Western Digital 320GB EIDE Internal drive. I'm gonna swap this one out for the 2.5GB HDD (mentioned in the first post) in my External Enclosure. One question about this, assuming this new drive isn't yet formatted, should I format it with NTFS or FAT? IIRC, FAT is limited at only 32GB, right? So, does that narrow it down for me? |
Yes, however there are some 3rd party tools that let you format bigger drives with Fat. If you want to use it on your 360 you will need Fat. Any Costco members can pick up the Lacie 250GB External drive for $99 and it is already formated with Fat. | |
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03-05-2007, 11:10 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: SoCal Age: 36 PSN ID: Peench
Wii ID: 5757 7273 0641 1996
| Wurd. I'm FAT. | |
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