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Offline Turnsky

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Reply #20 on: November 18, 2004, 08:26:02 pm
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My 30gb suddenly feels inadequate. Oh, for the days when 1.44mb was enough to store my OS and all the "media" I ever needed...


y'know, i want to just put XP on a hoarde of floppies just for ****s and giggles.. but DAMN, that's a lot of floppies, tho..:lol:
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Reply #21 on: November 18, 2004, 08:36:04 pm
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Reply #22 on: November 19, 2004, 07:12:51 am
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y'know, i want to just put XP on a hoarde of floppies just for ****s and giggles.. but DAMN, that's a lot of floppies, tho..:lol:


Actually, I think Win2k is indeed available on floppy disks - you request the order and they ship you the crate, and it has something like 400 floppy disks in there. Oh man, it's ridiculous. :p

And you know, now that you mention it, that's a good point. I just realised that I have a really well-organised backup system that none of my friends share.
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Reply #23 on: November 19, 2004, 11:19:57 am
Reminds me of the later Amiga games, like Ambermoon or Monkey Island 2. What was it, 12 or 15 Disks? That already felt like a lot of stuff.
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Reply #24 on: November 19, 2004, 11:31:03 am
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I'm fairly sure Hitachi beat them to it, as that one has been in the stores for at least a week.


"Hard drive maker Seagate has begun shipping what it claims is the world's highest capacity PC hard drive: a 400GB beast that's also the first drive of its class to hold up to 133GB on a single platter."


The Hitachi drive had 5 platters IIRC.
 

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Reply #25 on: November 19, 2004, 04:48:45 pm
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Reminds me of the later Amiga games, like Ambermoon or Monkey Island 2. What was it, 12 or 15 Disks? That already felt like a lot of stuff.


11 plus a save game disk. I was very glad I had a second disk drive I can tell you :D

And that wasn't that late an Amiga game. Freespace 1 is a later Amga game. Monkey Island II came out in the early middle of the Amiga's history :)
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Reply #26 on: November 19, 2004, 05:11:27 pm
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11 plus a save game disk. I was very glad I had a second disk drive I can tell you :D

And that wasn't that late an Amiga game. Freespace 1 is a later Amga game. Monkey Island II came out in the early middle of the Amiga's history :)


Well, it was in MY late Amiga history, then. ;) I don't know when I sold it, but I can tell I never had a 2nd disk drive. The larger memory on my A1200 helped a lot, though. With the A500 it was a *****.

BTW, I almost had forgotten about that FS conversion for the Amiga, as I wasn't aware of FS at that time. One of the last things I played on that thing has probably been Wing Commander. Dunno.
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Reply #27 on: November 19, 2004, 05:23:58 pm
400GB? pfft... my keychain USB has more than that.... oh wait...

Anyway, the important thing is to have enough room for games... no... pr0n... no.... games..... no...... Word Documents, yes that's it.....
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Reply #28 on: November 20, 2004, 08:33:08 am
Back on my ol' Win 95 system, our HD space was limited to 1.5 gigs per partition. So, we purchased a huge new hardrive, but had to divide it into 12 partitions (Drives C, D, E, F, G, H, etc).

Can you say "clutter?"

It took forever to find anything on that computer...
 

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Reply #29 on: November 20, 2004, 08:45:43 am
Updating your Windows 95 would have helped. With Win95 "0" and "A", the maximum partition size was 2 GB, with Win95 "B" it increased to current levels, using Fat32 instead of Fat16.
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Reply #30 on: November 20, 2004, 11:53:02 am
mitac: Not IIRC, it also depends on mobo, especially when you're running on the 1,5 GB barrier. I installed a 20GB drive on a P122Mhz IBM (horror)  a while ago. I could do 5 or so 1,5 GB partitions, and then the mobo simply stopped adressing the stuff. Mind, that machine calculated oddly: Give it 4 sticks of 4 MB RAM, it tells you it has 14MB. Take it two, add two of 8MB (so you get 2*4+2*8) and it tells you 23MB.
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Reply #31 on: November 20, 2004, 05:08:33 pm
Weird...  I presume everything like that was fixed in XP? but it's odd how the OS does not understand the hardware.  You would have thought that there would be some margin built in; ie: the ability to address 100GB of RAM and partition a 10TB HD, because you know we will all be there at some point...
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Reply #32 on: November 20, 2004, 06:15:37 pm
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Weird...  I presume everything like that was fixed in XP? but it's odd how the OS does not understand the hardware.  You would have thought that there would be some margin built in; ie: the ability to address 100GB of RAM and partition a 10TB HD, because you know we will all be there at some point...


well, with 32-bit processors, the ram limit is around 4gb (2^32). hard drives partitioned larger than 132gb was fixed with sp1.
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Reply #33 on: November 21, 2004, 01:15:47 am
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Reply #34 on: November 21, 2004, 05:39:32 am
Bastard.

Clave: NT and 2K couldn't do files bigger then 4GB, rather annoying for raw video, it seems. But XP and NTFS do files as big as parititions, a couple of 100GB IIRC. It could've been nearing TB though. RAM is limited by the processor architecture, so a 64 bit pro should do 2^64==enough for now.
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Reply #35 on: November 21, 2004, 07:00:39 am
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Reply #36 on: November 21, 2004, 09:23:43 am
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Bastard.

Clave: NT and 2K couldn't do files bigger then 4GB


are you on drugs?
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Reply #37 on: November 21, 2004, 09:44:18 am
No, perhaps I've just read the wrong computer mag, or the limit is just for FAT drives.
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Reply #38 on: November 21, 2004, 09:55:19 am
that limit is for FAT, yes.
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