Story OF A Harddisk That Lasted For More Than 20 Years.

This is a true story that I personally experienced. The 20 megabytes harddisk that came along with my first computer lasted for more than 20 years. Amazing, Isn’t that?

Well, it was 1992, I bought a second-hand 286 computer from my colleague for RM1500. By That time, 386 computers were in the market already as I knew many of my colleagues were buying 386 by that time, and the price was around RM3500. At that time, I had little knowledge about computer. I bought the computers because many of my colleagues were buying computer as Basic Programming Program was popular. Since we learnt only basic computer applications in college, we would compete with each other to excel in computer. So, in the end, everybody bought a computer and used his talent to create all sort of programs to show off to each other. That was a very good experience, especially when any one of us created some things ‘new and interesting’, we would meet and ‘party’ about it as we were not selfish, we shared every ‘great work’ created.

In those days, a harddisk was very expansive. It was around RM700. I upgraded my system to 386, later to 486 using MS WINDOWS 3.11, but still using that harddisk. I cannot remember the brand of the hard disk, but I think it was Seagate. It was as big and as thick as a CD ROM drive. Much Thicker and heavier than a Quantum Bigfoot harddisk. I had never measure its weight but I think It was 1-2 kilogramme. It had a red LED that lights and sound that ‘bipping’ when reading and writing. It was very slow of course. It was manufactured in 1980 and I gave it away to a secondary school boy together with the harddisk built in a 486 complete system in 2001 and I never knew about it now . The boy loved computer very much so I gifted it to him when I left the place of work after 4 years of working there. Ay that time I was using Pentium 233MHz Notebook on MS WINDOWS 98. After leaving the place of work hundreds of miles away from my home town for many years, It only remains in my memory and now I share it with everyone.

TIP: Take good care of your harddisk, so that it can serve you longer.