You may not be aware, but hard drives started as HUGE disc packs. These could be a dozen platters, each platter being 12 inches, 16 inches, and (my memory tells me) 24" platters. The platters were a removable pack of discs to allow them to be swapped out as needed to run different code, or to simply replace them. The actual drive units were truly massive things, refrigerator sized in older models, and were used in a clean room environment, just like the mainframe computers they were designed to work with. The 8 inch and smaller drives were a bit later in the development of hard drives. Those smaller sized drives allowed them to be used with mini-computers. By the time the IBM PC was first seen (in 1981) the hard drive was still not a readily available item due to its EXTREMELY high price tag. (A 10MB hard drive could command a $5000 price tag at the very end of the 1970's.)
I also found out that there's a 0.85" HDD that nokia used in their phones once upon a time :D. Seeing these curiosities really make my brain go weeeeeee!!! Nice vid :D
@@techtechboom9339 not sure if you could get one intact or working, but the nokia n91 is the phone that had 4GB and later 8GB!!! Though as you mentioned in your video.. it might be 1000x slower than the nvme you have on your pc LMAO
I love the curiosity man! Keep it up, i also like to see how things function and run.
This is so cool!
You may not be aware, but hard drives started as HUGE disc packs. These could be a dozen platters, each platter being 12 inches, 16 inches, and (my memory tells me) 24" platters. The platters were a removable pack of discs to allow them to be swapped out as needed to run different code, or to simply replace them. The actual drive units were truly massive things, refrigerator sized in older models, and were used in a clean room environment, just like the mainframe computers they were designed to work with. The 8 inch and smaller drives were a bit later in the development of hard drives. Those smaller sized drives allowed them to be used with mini-computers. By the time the IBM PC was first seen (in 1981) the hard drive was still not a readily available item due to its EXTREMELY high price tag. (A 10MB hard drive could command a $5000 price tag at the very end of the 1970's.)
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I also found out that there's a 0.85" HDD that nokia used in their phones once upon a time :D. Seeing these curiosities really make my brain go weeeeeee!!! Nice vid :D
That's crazy!🤯
@@techtechboom9339 not sure if you could get one intact or working, but the nokia n91 is the phone that had 4GB and later 8GB!!! Though as you mentioned in your video.. it might be 1000x slower than the nvme you have on your pc LMAO
IBM actually created the first 1” hard drive
Yes they did. But it generated no value for them beyond being a curiosity.
@@Dave5281968 true, by that time the technology had already peaked