• 4grams@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    My first HD was a 20mb mfm drive :). Be right back, need some “just for men” for my beard (kidding, I’m proud of it).

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      12 days ago

      So was mine, but the controller thought it was 10mb so had to load a device driver to access the full size.

      Was fine until a friend defragged it and the driver moved out of the first 10mb. Thereafter had to keep a 360kb 5¼" drive to boot from.

      That was in an XT.

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        12 days ago

        it honestly could have been a 10mb, I don’t even remember. only thing I really do remember is thinking it was interesting how it used the floppy and second cable, and how the sound it made was used in every 90’s and early 2000’s tv and movie show as generic computer noise :)

        You have me beat on the XT, mine was a 286, although it did replace an Apple 2e (granted both were aquired several years after they were already considered junk in the 386 era).

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          11 days ago

          I remember the sound. Also, it was on a three wheel table, and the whole thing would shake when defragging.