Are You Ready for The Worm Drive? Computer Chronicles (1988)

[minxkitty8]

"Bitmaps take up a lot of space!"

[MrJ0mmy]

old computer WORD TO BIG BIRD

[kinmanyuen]

1gb epic 1988

[kaw203]

Its so compact

[rick9021090210]

"... before Tim continues here, Who are the kinds of people using this kind of thing, Who needs this kind of masssive storage capacity ?" well.... gamers and prn colectors of course!!!! \m/

what else you tought would require masssive space? spreadsheets? Word Documents? emails? with porn attachments hell yeah they would!

ohh... and the ever growing Windows OS.. wich jumped from ~400mb in 95 to about 12GB on 7 with full features.... and it only looks nicer....

jaja peace.

[therealandycook]

1gb WOWOWOW Slow down, who would ever need that much space. Ever?

[TheAstro30]

woooo 240MB's!!!

[sandweged]

Seems like everyone was rich back then, or they just didn't care about spending a shit ton for a ton of shit.

[BOS6940]

@sandweged

They thought that that was what we would think 3TB is now. Just think, eventually we will look like noobs for thinking 3TB is a lot

[voltron821]

@elseis yep and in 20 years they will say the same for your flash drive

[fire2box]

0.000000001 fps on Crysis

[DanielDownNdirty]

I SWEAR IVE SEEN THAT GUY WITH THE GLASSES ON PORNHUB

[FutureiMacuser]

This seems like where computer CD's and DVD's came from. :/

[pointlessfailure]

I've got a worm drive. It's ram upgradable too.

[eMGeeGFX]

That guy somehow reminds me of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross...

[KaxiLaxi]

and here i'am with my 2 TB HDD =D

[bazfanv2]

Considering the size of programmes in those days, the average home user would find it difficult to fill a 1gig storage disc. I have in total just over 800gb storage and about 500gb unused. I have all my games, music, programmes. etc etc. Now im stuck to fill the rest up.

[spacehelmetforacow]

How come the whole "put the disc in a cartridge to keep it from getting scratched" thing never caught on with optical discs? It makes so much more sense then...

[jonevans331]

to think, now we have 2-3 terrabyte drives

[mrh112]

Think thats massive, my pc has over 1.5 terrabytes of storage!

[aei05h1]

@mrh112 I can fit 15 kittens inside my pc!

[Estrategy002]

At that time CD-Rom had more memory the HDD ;D

[anthroparion]

The drive's great, but check out the DO!! (2:17) Now that is impressive.

[pufixas]

I though this video will be about computer virus type... "worm"

[mcfuson37]

Back then cd was top of the line tech. now its old but cheap.

[neolandes]

who are the people who are using this types of things. who needs this kind of massive storage capacity?

well, we see in the future that our customers are gonna have access to massive amounts of hd 3d pr0n and no effective means are ready to handle that.

[mrfuzzer1]

He didnt really show the speed as he didnt say how big the data was. If it was like 100kb then it was slow even by 88 standard.

[Manimal347]

1988? I owned a computer from that year, and tone built a year after. Both had 20MB drives that used a 5.25" form factor, clicked and thwacked as their stepper motors moved the heads with the same technology used in floppy drives, and required annual reformats lest the heads drift out of alignment with the low level format data tracks. Too bad, in '88, a worm drive might cost eight or nine thousand dollars after inflation. That's more than a bitchin' VAX-speed 386 cost!

[DarkShadowRage2]

I was 1 years old when this was happening too..damn man.

[DarkShadowRage2]

erasable tech? pfft it'll never happen

[MoralBankruptcy]

"What's the application you have here?"

"You're looking at an employee ID system, or it could very easily be used to keep track of the women you stalk, which is what I use it for."

[vujcicfan]

"The 32MB barrier"

[goingwithzed]

the business ROI explanation is hilarious... 'who needs all that 220MB of data?' - porn and games, man, like always.

[GT35R]

Write Once Read Mostly? Are you kidding me? Were they trying their hardest to spell out WORM as an acronym because the the full name of the device is retarded

[InfoAlliance]

i would love to go back in the past and show them my laptop and psp, then brag and say "i have 320gb hdd, what do you have? 100MB? HA HA HA"

[K0diak314]

@InfoAlliance Were you even alive back then? :)

[InfoAlliance]

@K0diak314 no, i would love to time travel back tho

[orka16605]

*copying files from harddrive to the "Worm Drive"*

- Then its doing that Tim, it is using up space on the disc?

- Correct.

- And I can't use that space anymore once I done that?

- No, you can't.

[vujcicfan]

@orka16605 At first, i also thought he's an idiot, but i think what he meant is that you can't use the space anymore because it's not an erasable drive, so if you write something to the disk, this space is gone and you can't use this space ever again.

[DRNEGOLICIS]

Hell i bet if i could time travel in there with my old ass P3 with windows 2K they would shit all over them selves

[lemonrind]

I'm not ready for the WORM drive.

[jamieross1991]

Data from the bottom of the sea?!?!

[coldlogic1]

what a dumb name lol.

[N64Guy]

ohh no my porn poped up

[ElPeruanoUFO]

100GB used by Mayor cooporations for all their storage needs

[GiggleHz]

hard to believe the thing didnt take off all for the low low price of freakin, 1600 bloody dollars, lol crazy how expensive stuff was back then.

[lordbalron]

@GiggleHz Yeah, seeing as how you can get a terabyte drive for a 1/20 the price of that, and tens of gigabytes on a microsd card the size of your fingernail. How times have changed

[Meteotrance]

wow the ancestor of the Iomega Jazz and Zip pretty impressive !!!

[macbookfan33]

my 1987 hdd only has 20mb of storage!

[commodore256]

This thing pwns CDs. Most PCs didn't have CD Burners until about 10 years later.

[bumtownv2]

The first CD-R burner?

[websuspect]

20 megabytes maybe on a hard drive.

[tkoizumi]

1GB?! Back in the day the highest resource grabbing software were never more than 50mb haha

[kaltblut]

@tkoizumi probably not more than 5mb

[flatblackstrat]

1 gig back then was huge. Most hard drives back then werent even 500 gb.

[flatblackstrat]

@flatblackstrat Meant 500Mb.

[christianzzz09]

I want to go back in time and show them people crysis .... and shows them a terrabyte of storage haha .... their heads would explode !

[Pirwzwhomper]

And I have the nerve to delete files all day long and not even appreciate being able to do that!

[ellaellablabla]

"who needs this kind of massive data capacity" !!

[NuclearBanane]

@ellaellablabla

lol sitting here with my 32GB USB 3.0 laughing.

[marcelkade]

@NuclearBanane and in the future we're going to laugh about that, too!

[Deizelcore]

@NuclearBanane

Your comment will crack someone up 23 years later.))

[Quartrez]

@NuclearBanane LOL "32GB USB 3.0" XD So primitive...

- Someone from 2020

[kuza261]

@ellaellablabla 30 years ago my MP3 player was a witch. it was 4 GB

[wesmatron]

@ellaellablabla and they still haven't managed to get a couple of Gb on one

[TahreyUK]

@ellaellablabla Before I moved to a hard disk + CDROM computer in '94, my complete diskette collection added up to maybe 250mb... over one small and three large boxes.

[OneEyedJack1970]

Talking about the 32 megabyte limit -- that's old school. DOS 4 actually broke it, but otherwise sucked so bad people kept using DOS 3.3.

[kinmanyuen]

100gigabytes rack

1988 nice

[bobdole57]

The president of this company seems a bit wooden. I bet he's unemployed now.

[BrianAStier]

Where do you think all the nasty "worms" came from? :-)

[xjoeman123]

1500.00$ for 1gb they got screwed

[krazyblakk]

CD BURNER

[HB45175]

I am very impressed by the fact that this was broadcasted on TV despite it's obvious nerdiness. It's by geeks for geeks, without dumbing it down to make it suit everyone.

[TheGaylard]

Those bitmap graphics take up a lot of space.

[gonepishing]

waltz in there with a 32 gb SD card and a netbook and blow their Avaitor-toting minds

[onionofdeath]

or even a 16gb MicroSD card!!!

[silntdoogood]

good old days "240 mbs-whos using this kind of massive storage drives??"

too bad these didn't take off, this is basically a cd, they were waiting for rewritable optical drives, and wouldn't have it for another 25ish years...

[AlfredRusselWallace]

@silntdoogood well more like 10 years not 25. I dont understand why its in a cartridge format. They themselves said that all thats inside is a CD. Maybe the readers were so unreliable that you really had to protect a CD from being exposed to dust and such? At the time I'd say this was a much better option than hard disks, depending on how much each cartridge cost once you bought the drive for $1500.

[NewWave82]

@AlfredRusselWallace ... you had to protect the data for long period of time. Even CDs back than and today can easily become unplayable due to accidents. It makes more sense to keep them enclosed. Most likely today you cant do that because it makes it more expensive to sell. Consider todays CD as strip down version.

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[MalkavianMadness]

Its kinda looks like an oversized minidisc.. BTw Minisdisc 's whre great..I was sad to see them go. I recon this optical-disk didnt make it because of its insane price-tag and since its 1988 I recon its was still quite unreliable.

[Lachlant1984]

Very interesting technology, cheap MP3 players usually have about 2 GB of storage, so this amount of storage was known about in 1988, that's amazing.

[XxSTICH666xX]

Wow 1gb is pretty damn impressive for 1988.

[TAGundam]

@XxSTICH666xX No. 240MB was pretty damn impressive for 1988. (notice they said 32MB Barrier, the limit to how much information could be read by computers at that time. 1GB was like dividing something by zero. Heads were liable to explode.

[RetroGamerr1991]

@TAGundam Someone divided by zero OH SH-----------