10 thoughts on “What to do with all those old harddrives? I got craploads of these, I even remember my first harddrive which i paid like 300 bucks for..it was 20Gb :)”
Electronic waste is the bane of our age. I go back to the floppy disk age. Tempus fugit!
+Carolyn Fahm i also remember the floppies…and not the small ones 🙂 although I try and deny it since it really shows my age 🙂
at the very least these ones will get a second lease on life as my still life models 🙂
I started out life totally pre-computer, and then went into punch cards and paper take and piles and piles of printouts. Who would have ever imagined that something that started like that would have evolved to change the world so profoundly? I would imagine that you can get all sorts of fascinating light patterns with your new models, with no model releases to concern yourself with!
exactly +Carolyn Fahm and as a added bonus, they stand very still.. : )
wow punch cards…now thats before me 🙂
Paper tape was the worst. I had a beta counter that outputted through paper tape which had to be fed through a tape reader into our PDP-8. It was a triumph getting these metres and metres of tape read without is twisting and kinking. At one point I had a whole team assembled just to spool is so that it didn't twist.
Reminds me when I saw my first 20Mb hard drive used for a IBM mainframe. Basically it was the size of a small fridge.
That sounds like a nightmare +Carolyn Fahm, at least it would be an incentive to get it right the first time to minimise the chance of having to roll out more strips!. +Mark O'Callaghan yeah and you could not even give these away now.
Ahh the old washing machine hard drives – I had one of the platters from one of those
+Rodney Campbell I can fix you up with some more platters 😉 how about a truckload?
hmm… ya could be onto something there +Grant Galbraith, may also provide added data destruction too 🙂
Electronic waste is the bane of our age. I go back to the floppy disk age. Tempus fugit!
+Carolyn Fahm i also remember the floppies…and not the small ones 🙂 although I try and deny it since it really shows my age 🙂
at the very least these ones will get a second lease on life as my still life models 🙂
I started out life totally pre-computer, and then went into punch cards and paper take and piles and piles of printouts. Who would have ever imagined that something that started like that would have evolved to change the world so profoundly? I would imagine that you can get all sorts of fascinating light patterns with your new models, with no model releases to concern yourself with!
exactly +Carolyn Fahm and as a added bonus, they stand very still.. : )
wow punch cards…now thats before me 🙂
Paper tape was the worst. I had a beta counter that outputted through paper tape which had to be fed through a tape reader into our PDP-8. It was a triumph getting these metres and metres of tape read without is twisting and kinking. At one point I had a whole team assembled just to spool is so that it didn't twist.
Reminds me when I saw my first 20Mb hard drive used for a IBM mainframe. Basically it was the size of a small fridge.
That sounds like a nightmare +Carolyn Fahm, at least it would be an incentive to get it right the first time to minimise the chance of having to roll out more strips!.
+Mark O'Callaghan yeah and you could not even give these away now.
Ahh the old washing machine hard drives – I had one of the platters from one of those
+Rodney Campbell I can fix you up with some more platters 😉 how about a truckload?
hmm… ya could be onto something there +Grant Galbraith, may also provide added data destruction too 🙂