A nostalgic whirl

I had a council rubbish collection day last month. I threw out two PCs, a pile of SCSI storage devices and a scanner (leftovers from my mi$$pent Apple days).

I almost threw out my 100Mb ZIP drive. But at the last minute decided to see if it will work with my current Thinkpad (via an Adaptec SCSI PCMCIA card). It did, and I spent the next hour or so sorting through a pile of old ZIP disks.

The whirling sound brought back memories. 10 years ago I was just starting out on my own! It feels like a lifetime ago.

I used these “huge” 100Mb ZIP disks for my backups and to transfer “large” volumes of data to others. It was fun to uncover some old web and touchscreen application prototypes – which still worked on today’s browsers of course

What’s your tech-nostalgia moment?

2 comments on “A nostalgic whirl”

1. Stilgherrian said:
   

   April must have been tech clean-up month. I found the start-up disc for Apple’s Hard Disk 20 from 1985. This external hard drive extended my data storage from under half a megabyte on floppy to a gargantuan 20MB. I was in heaven!

   (Some commenters on the post I linked to had their own nostalgia moments too.)

   
   7 May 2008 at 12:04 pm
2. Zern said:
   

   Wow - I remember fantasising over the HD20. 20 whole megabytes…

   
   9 May 2008 at 12:25 am

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