I was looking through a box of hard drives and I came across two Apple HDD's one is 4GB and the other is 7GB. I was wondering if anyone else has anything smaller in their collection. I cannot remember what Mac's these came out of and of yet I have not tested them but I reckon that they will work. I will edit this post soon and include photos.
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What is the smallest PATA drive that you own?
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Smallest PATA? I have a 1.8-inch PATA drive from a 1st-gen MBAir. Pretty small size, but 80GB capacity.
3.5-inch? I have a 1.2 GB, think it came from a PowerMac 5260? That model also came with a 800MB, but I don't have one of those.
If you want to ask about SCSI, from older Macs - those can get pretty small. I think I have a 20MB in a box somewhere.
3.5-inch? I have a 1.2 GB, think it came from a PowerMac 5260? That model also came with a 800MB, but I don't have one of those.
If you want to ask about SCSI, from older Macs - those can get pretty small. I think I have a 20MB in a box somewhere.
The smallest PATA drive I have both in terms of capacity and physical size (1.0”)!is a 512 MB IBM Microdrive.
I also have a couple 1.8” 2 GB Toshibas.
I also have a couple 1.8” 2 GB Toshibas.
It’s not a Mac but what about the 5 MB hard disk for Lisa back in 1983?
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I think that's the smallest Apple ever sold for Mac; the Hard Disk 20 and 20S back in... I want to say 1985.
As for me, the smallest I still have is whatever's in my iMac G3. I think it's 20 gig.
133MB in my 80486SX system. Hard to believe a dozen pictures from a modern smartphone would completely consume the entire space.
I might have a 9GB drive I think
My first PC was a homebuilt (by the seller) 286 AT for $100. That was 1990 and I paid monthly in $10 increments. Came with a 100mb hard drive. I upgraded later to a 500mb HD and paid another $100.
I have an either 10 or 20mb IDE drive in my Toshiba T2000 286 laptop from 1992, can't remember which without digging it out of the attic.
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Hugh
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Hugh
Did they make an IDE drive in 20MB size? The smallest drive I've ever had in a computer is 40MB but I don't believe it was IDE.I have an either 10 or 20mb IDE drive in my Toshiba T2000 286 laptop from 1992, can't remember which without digging it out of the attic.
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Also the Commodore Amiga 600HD - it came with the choice of a 20 or 40MB IDE HDD.
As for my smallest PATA drive - it would be the 500MB unit in my P133: still in full working order too...
First PC in our house (Amstrad PC-20, 8086) didn't have a hard drive at all. There was a card you could buy for it which I believe had a 3.5" drive mounted on it (I think I've seen a photo but can't find it now) but we didn't have that, just the 720k floppy drive.
The next machine was a fairly big jump to a 486 with 100-ish MB hard drive.
For me, the 100mb HD was a luxury. At the time I was coming from a Commodore 128. All my previous computer experience was with the Commodore and I had a hard time even conceptualizing what a hard drive actually was.
The seller gave me a personal course in MS-DOS. I would have been completely lost if he hadn't.
But by '91 or '92 I'd run out of space. Unfortunately that 500mb drive turned into a doorstop (it was a used sale) and I moved on to a 486 in '94.
After digging around I have come across an Atari - Seagate 60mb - in its day it was massive. It came out of an Atari Falcon 030.
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LOL. There was a time before 1997 that my biggest objection to the Mac was that the UI was a crutch for users who refused (or were too stupid) to learn DOS.
Yanno, when I learned DOS on my first ever computer, my biggest complaint was that the commands were in a language I didn’t speak.
Yanno, when I learned DOS on my first ever computer, my biggest complaint was that the commands were in a language I didn’t speak.
You mean, you wasn't born bilingual or multi-lingual?
I learned MS-DOS without even having a PC to practice on regularly. As an eager teen, I read through the entire manual in one sitting and that was enough to learn the ropes. The section in the EULA regarding obtaining a refund really caught my attention for some reason - and years later, I smiled at this development:
I remember these. My first digital camera (Minolta Dimage 5) could use these for maximum storage capacity. I never used one as I had a whopping 128MB CF card at the time.
You mean the Microdrive. It was a drop-in replacement for a CF card.
The Kittyhawk is a different beast.
Same here. "Color" without a U? Heresy.Yanno, when I learned DOS on my first ever computer, my biggest complaint was that the commands were in a language I didn’t speak.
You mean, you wasn't born bilingual or multi-lingual?
I learned MS-DOS without even having a PC to practice on regularly. As an eager teen, I read through the entire manual in one sitting and that was enough to learn the ropes. The section in the EULA regarding obtaining a refund really caught my attention for some reason - and years later, I smiled at this development:
Back in the day when you got real manuals. I did that with DOS and Windows. For Mac I had thick tomes on how to use a Mac also Mac Upgrade and Repair.
I remember that because the Microdrive were expensive and photographer wanted them they were buying iPods and stripping them out because Apple's iPod were cheap at the time.You mean the Microdrive. It was a drop-in replacement for a CF card.
Thanks! I didn't realize they were different.You mean the Microdrive. It was a drop-in replacement for a CF card.