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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:31:49 JST nixCraft 🐧

   How much hard drive storage did your first home computer have? 🤔💾

   • JD Long ✅ (cmastication@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:37:11 JST JD Long ✅

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     @nixCraft none. Floppy only. TRS-80 model 1.

   • Peter G (peterg75@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:37:20 JST Peter G

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     @nixCraft 64 MB. 8088 IBM clone with dual RLL 32mb drives.

   • Mondriter (moonrider_acme@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:38:50 JST Mondriter

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     @nixCraft My (Toshiba) MSX had no hard drive, but 64K RAM well used.

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:44:29 JST Urzl

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     @nixCraft 10 MB, supposedly but there was some weird shit with that generation of Seagate where it self-destructed if it got more than half full.

   • Axel Werner (axel1973@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:48:17 JST Axel Werner

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     @nixCraft zero

   • Dave Addison (dave_id_a@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:48:32 JST Dave Addison

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     @nixCraft I'm not entirely sure if my first computer even had a floppy disk it was so long ago

   • Owen Tyme (owentyme@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:50:21 JST Owen Tyme

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     @nixCraft Depends.

     If you count computers owned by my father, ten megs.

     If we're talking about the first that was actually mine, then I think that was fifty megs.

   • Mike Seymour (mikeseymour@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:51:47 JST Mike Seymour

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     @nixCraft My first used audio cassettes for storage. The next three had floppy drives, until I saved up for a 340MB hard drive.

   • Rich Stein (he/him) (runrichrun@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:52:08 JST Rich Stein (he/him)

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     @nixCraft Ummm... 🤔😉😂
     Heathkit HS-151 https://www.1000bit.it/scheda.asp?id=974
     Radio Shack Science Fair Digital Computer Kit 28-218 https://www.digibarn.com/collections/games/science-fair-digital-computer/index.html
     Franklin Ace 1200 https://www.vintage-computer.com/machines.php?franklinace1200
     #VintageComputing

   • madopal (madopal@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:56:01 JST madopal

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     @nixCraft None. Atari 800 with single 810 floppy drive. 90k of storage per disk.

   • Bob Thomson (bobthomson70@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:56:38 JST Bob Thomson

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     @nixCraft lol, my first computer, cassette tapes :)

   • mastazi (mastazi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 21:57:30 JST mastazi

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     @nixCraft zero. Amiga 500, no hard drive.

   • John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:01:13 JST John Maxwell

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     @nixCraft None

   • RickTimmis (ricktimmis@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:12:34 JST RickTimmis

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     @nixCraft: I had a Dragon 32, had cassette tapes, but I think you might of been able to buy a 5.5 inch floppy for it.

   • bhaugland (bhaugland@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:16:53 JST bhaugland

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     @nixCraft I'm not sure how many Megabytes a 30 minute cassette held.

   • Albert Witteveen (albertwitteveen@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:24:26 JST Albert Witteveen

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     @nixCraft press play on tape

   • winstonsmith (winst0nsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:26:05 JST winstonsmith

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     @nixCraft zero, but i had 128KB RAM.

     i was unable to save my work. instead, i would write my program on paper so i could type it in again next time i wanted to use the computer.

     eventually i got a floppy drive, and then my program didn't evaporate when i turned off the computer lol.

     that was a huge upgrade haha.

   • Zabuxx (zabuzzman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:26:50 JST Zabuxx

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     @nixCraft first hard drive was 20MB on a IBM PS/2!

   • hansvschoot (hansvschoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:28:20 JST hansvschoot

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     @nixCraft first one with a HDD, had 20mb of disk space. A 5.25 inch bigfoot disk IIRC

   • Karel Brits 💬 (karelbrits@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:49:57 JST Karel Brits 💬

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     @nixCraft I honestly can't remember. But certainly way less than the storage in my smartphone.

   • GoatsLive (goatslive@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 22:52:55 JST GoatsLive

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     @nixCraft 20mb

   • lemgandi (lemgandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 23:05:11 JST lemgandi

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     @nixCraft A lovely Sanyo 555 with dual floppy drives. Compiling a C program took three floppy swaps. I mostly wrote 8088 assembly on it. The editor, assembler, and linker could all fit on one drive.

   • Koen (bonno@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 00:47:02 JST Koen

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     @nixCraft my first computer a commodore 128 didn't have any storage - at every boot I had a new PC which had forgotten everything I did before - 1 month later I received a cassete reader which I could connect as storage

   • DaleOh (daleoh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 02:18:48 JST DaleOh

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     @nixCraft 190kb floppies

   • Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️ (mikaellundin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 02:42:47 JST Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️

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     @nixCraft it didn’t.

   • Epistomai (epistomai@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:11:07 JST Epistomai

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     @nixCraft 120 mb I think

   • LeftOfKarlMarx (leftofkarlmarx@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 04:22:25 JST LeftOfKarlMarx

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     @nixCraft

     Didn't.

     👴

   • eno2001 (georgelenzer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 05:49:11 JST eno2001

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     @nixCraft CR-30 cassette

   • JoyOfLiving (joyofliving@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 13:32:31 JST JoyOfLiving

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     @nixCraft It was a Commodore 128, there was no hard drive. I had the big 5 inch floppies.

   • kappert (kappert@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 22:17:28 JST kappert

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     @nixCraft 40mb

   • crisl_at (crisl_at@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jul-2024 14:45:22 JST crisl_at

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     @nixCraft It was a 60 minutes cassette 😂

   • Antwan van Houdt (jabwd@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 23:07:13 JST Antwan van Houdt

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     @nixCraft 30gb