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Samsung 30 TB drive
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Wow, you guys had it nice.
My first external storage unit was an 11 megabyte (11Mb!) unit made by Corvus. It was roughly the size of a shoebox and arrached to my original beige 128k Mac with a tiny 2 pin serial cable since SCSI and the other parallel protocols weren’t a thing yet.
How far we’ve come!
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well, just to show you how old I am, I remember (but never used, or knew how to use) the PDP-11 based CMX computers that used a PAPER TAPE loader to load the software (even though 8″ Floppy disks were already out).
I remember thinking how insane it was to have this ribbon of paper that had to be loaded to get the computer to run. And the mindset of people back then were no different than of today. Anything new sucked. They had
IVC Helical 2″ VTR’s and had just received their first Sony BVH1000 1″ machine, and they all said “this Sony is a piece of junk compared to the IVC ” ! I heard that type of analogy my entire career, on every type of product (right up to FCP X !).Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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You’re not old, Bob. You wrote about your Avid having 3 TB and 9 TB drives.
If you’d written about an Avid with 3 GB drives, I’d have conceded you’re old.———————————–
Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
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but I am old – I worked with AVIDs with drives smaller than 3TB each ! The 3TB ones were “the big ones”.
BobBob Zelin
Rescue 1, Inc.
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No Bob, 3 GB, 9 GB, 18 GB was the norm in the Avid in the nineties. Gigabytes.
The first Avid I saw in 1992 had one 2 Gigabyte drive. The first Avid I regularly edited on, in 1996 had two 9 Gigabyte drives totalling 18 Gigabytes. Yes Gigabytes. My phone has 4 times that much space.
You’re saying 3 ‘TB’ and 9 ‘TB’. Terabytes.
Avid got into the Terabytes only by the 2010s.———————————–
Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
[Bob Zelin] “Anything new sucked.”
And, “That will never catch on.” Over and over again. Denial seems to be the predominant human condition. Fascinating watching all of its permutations on Social Media. Seemingly never-ending.
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[Neil Sadwelkar] ” 3 GB, 9 GB, 18 GB was the norm in the Avid in the nineties. Gigabytes.
“Agreed. We had a slew of MediaRAID and some others (I forget) that was stuck at those numbers.
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When I was in college, 35-odd years ago I wrote a paper about the then current state of the art of Capacitative and Laser video disks and compared them to video played from computer hard drives. In my paper, prognosticating ahead, I suggested that one day these optical disks could store an entire gigabyte… or even more! And when they could, they would supplant video tape for TV viewing. My professor, who later became the Communications Department Head, red-lined it and noted along the margins his comments that it was “unsubstantiated and highly unlikely”, and gave the paper a B-minus. I keep that paper around somewhere for laughs.
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