End of an era
December 26th, 2006On Sunday I threw out the old Gateway 66Mhz Pentium machine on which I wrote my PhD thesis many years ago. It still worked, but the inability to boot from its CD drive was becoming a bit limiting! And its two hard disks had just under 2G of capacity between them.
Today I threw out my floppy disks, realising that I no longer had any machine capable of reading them.
December 28th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
By “threw out” I hope you mean you took it to Cambridge Computer Recycling ( http://www.cambridge-computer-recycling.co.uk/ ) - scary place to visit when they’re half way through a big job.
Why do storage companies love “HD”? High density. Hard disk. High definition.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Of course, if you’d dug deep enough, you would have been able to find IT-Green (http://www.it-green.co.uk). Big warehouse operation in the deepest darkest middle of the Fens.