in metrik units please
2006-09-08 15:04:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
The first home computers relied on floppy disks, with no hard drive. Everything was saved to floppy and DOS had to be installed every time you turned it on.
When they came out with 20 mb, people were astonished at how much they could save on a computer.
2006-09-08 16:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by lcmcpa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I remember some 5mb stand alone drive units that were about 3 feet high, 3 feet deep, and 2.5 feet wide. You can figure out the conversions.
2006-09-08 22:11:17 · answer #2 · answered by Interested Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one that I had was a HUGE 60Mb. They did come smaller. That was in the mid-80's. It also had a 5 1/4" floppy drive, you know, those true "floppy" disks.
2006-09-09 01:04:34 · answer #3 · answered by mittalman53 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the first one, but the oldest one I have personally seen was on an IBM-7044 (early/mid sixties vintage). It was a cube about four feet (~ 1.2 m) square and four feet (~ 1.2 m) tall. It held 50 MB, and it used hydraulic hoses to move the arm containing the heads.
2006-09-08 22:09:08 · answer #4 · answered by WDS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first hard drive was 52 feet in diameter. In metric units, that's 15.849 6 meters.
2006-09-08 22:09:23 · answer #5 · answered by ralph.cramdon 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was 20 MB .before that there was no hard drive we used 5.5 floppy.
2006-09-08 22:10:31 · answer #6 · answered by Adnan Sallam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.computerhistory.org/
2006-09-08 22:10:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋