One reason to like iMacs...
 

....fast drives...

http://tinyurl.com/otpzpg3

One reason to like iMacs...
 

On 2/6/14, 4:26 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:01:14 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

...fast drives...

http://tinyurl.com/otpzpg3

SSDs? Yeah they are fast.

They do die suddenly tho. Most of the time you get some warning a
spinner is going south, if you are paying attention.
As long as everything is backed up and they are just cache, rock on!

OTOH I don't really do much that requires blazing speed these days. I
don't "game" I don't process much video and I don't crunch big
databases.
If I did, I would use a RAM drive. That really kicks ass.



SSDs have gotten a lot more reliable, and the hard drives that have died
on my in my lifetime, sans one, never gave me warning. I agree about RAM
drives, though. Does your 8088 CPU PC handle enough RAM to run a RAM
drive. :)

One reason to like iMacs...
 

On 2/6/14, 7:49 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:38:58 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/6/14, 4:26 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 14:01:14 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

...fast drives...

http://tinyurl.com/otpzpg3

SSDs? Yeah they are fast.

They do die suddenly tho. Most of the time you get some warning a
spinner is going south, if you are paying attention.
As long as everything is backed up and they are just cache, rock on!

OTOH I don't really do much that requires blazing speed these days. I
don't "game" I don't process much video and I don't crunch big
databases.
If I did, I would use a RAM drive. That really kicks ass.



SSDs have gotten a lot more reliable, and the hard drives that have died
on my in my lifetime, sans one, never gave me warning. I agree about RAM
drives, though. Does your 8088 CPU PC handle enough RAM to run a RAM
drive. :)

My 80286 had 12.64 meg on it, bigger than a lot of hard drives in
those days. I usually ran a 10 meg ram drive since most of the DOS
software couldn't really exploit more than a couple meg anyway with
the expanded memory driver.
I never used more than a small fraction of that.
It was really a "hobby" special, in a wooden box with a cardboard face
and a tea strainer on top for a fan grille.

It sat on my desk at IBM for over a year.
I think I have a picture somewhere.


The 80286 cpu was the chip I used in the first PC I assembled.

One reason to like iMacs...
 

wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 21:09:13 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/6/14, 7:49 PM, wrote:

My 80286 had 12.64 meg on it, bigger than a lot of hard drives in
those days. I usually ran a 10 meg ram drive since most of the DOS
software couldn't really exploit more than a couple meg anyway with
the expanded memory driver.
I never used more than a small fraction of that.
It was really a "hobby" special, in a wooden box with a cardboard face
and a tea strainer on top for a fan grille.

It sat on my desk at IBM for over a year.
I think I have a picture somewhere.


The 80286 cpu was the chip I used in the first PC I assembled.

This was a PC/AT 339 board scavenged out of a Publix store controller.
I worked my way through hard drives until I finally scored an 80 meg
ST4096.

My first boss at System Industries was Rich Blackborow who went over to
Quantum and Plus Systems and developed the Hard Card. First drive with an
integrated controller in the drive.