![]() The hard drive enclosure was the size of a bar fridge and made a lot of noise. I used to write code for Olivetti TC800 banking terminals in assembly language and we only had a 5 MB hard drive on our development machine. Today it’s hard to imagine having only 10 MB of storage but somehow we made do. That’s a 16 GB USB flash drive beside it for comparison. The thing weighs 2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) and makes a heck of a noise when it’s running, not that this one will ever run again. I took the cover off to show off the 4 heads and dual platters. I’ve had that for a while as it came out of an old IBM XT that I used to use for programming in the early ’80s. That’s a 10 MB Miniscribe model 2012 hard disk. ![]() I thought I’d take a photo of this old hard disk that I’ve been using as a paperweight for the past couple of decades.
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