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Won’t sell if it’s not ai.
Far too many brands have abandoned logical naming conventions just to tack AI onto their names. I can't even separate product lines anymore
Y'all got any more of that non-AI branded tech?
I remember when common sizes of HDDs were 30-40 MiBs...
My first HDD was 1.5 GB, this was in late 1996.
Still used floppies with that PC.
I remember when the family computer was upgraded to a 1 GB HDD. We kept wondering what could ever fill that much space. Now I have multiple TB of storage.
I now have individual files that are over 1 GB
Lots of files over that size. And something like 40 TB of storage haha. Like 80% full.
I still have my IBM ThinkPad with around 4GB of space spread across C:\ and D:\ on Windows 95. I remember having to determine which songs I wanted “ripped” from my dad’s CD collection because I was running out of space in MusicMatch.
I had an Amiga 1000 with a 10MB hard drive that attached to the side. It was not a standard connector. It was like a Nintendo cartridge looking thing, but maybe wider? There was a panel on the right side of the Amiga that came off and you just kinda stuck the hard drive on it. Or rather, there was a drive inside that was connected to the plug (or slot, I forget which side had which).
Side note, the machine shipped with 256KB of RAM and did multitasking at a time when Bill Gates (then, CEO of Microsoft) said you couldn't do it with less than 8MB. Some say it's different ways of multitasking. Either way, it works out to the same! Anyway, you could pull off the middle section of the front and reveal another slot, which took a 256KB RAM expansion, and we had that module installed, bringing us up to 512KB of RAM. I don't know what the difference was in the OS or in the programs my father ran, but I was playing Lemmings on it, and Lemmings had an extra boot screen that said "Expansion RAM detected and utilised," and I thought that was cool. Tried booting up the game with the module pulled out, and the screen didn't show. Game still played. I don't recall what the difference was. For Nintendo 64 owners who had the memory expansion thing, same concept, I guess.
I remember them being 
, quite some effort for 5MBs.