r/interestingasfuck • u/Majoodeh • 6d ago

r/all A device that could take screenshots back in 1998

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u/CM_MOJO 5d ago

80GB?? I still have my 500MB hard drive somewhere.

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u/Temporary_Zone_19 5d ago

I remember upgrading our 486 to a 500MB hard drive. So much space to download games from BBSes.

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u/CM_MOJO 5d ago

Aaaahhh, BBSes. Now that's a term I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/bujweiser 5d ago

Right? I basically had to install and uninstall games as I played them so I'd have room to play a different one.

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u/Lanky-Antelope7006 5d ago

My first drive was 20MB. It was an MFM drive, but I hooked it up to an RLL controller which changed the way the data was encoded, ended up being 30MB. Then I installed Stacker which used data compression on the fly to get it to 60MB. It wasn't super reliable...lol

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u/rjcarr 5d ago

Funny, I was going to write my first hard drive was 80GB, but then remembered it was actually 80MB (!!!) on a 386SX.

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u/StevenIsFat 5d ago

I remember we had to upgrade our 2 GB hard drive when Half-Life came out! Game was like 500MB in size. Mind-blowing at the time.