Have a dell 1720 laptop - hard drive starting to fail so stopped by MicroCenter. They had a 500gb drive for $54 or double that space for another $5 :Bow: Also have 2TB drives (desktop) for $79 :jawdrop. Time consuming part will be re-installing and transferring all the old files but way less than getting a new 17-inch laptop. Also replacing the keyboard. All-in-all about $75 to double the current system and have something usable again. :metallica:
If you can hook the drive up externally you can clone the old drive to the new. Or just do a full, piece by piece reinstall.
On the Mac side there is a free Hard drive cloner called SuperDuper.
It is just amazing how storage costs have come down. I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 05, 2014, 05:14:14 PM
It is just amazing how storage costs have come down. I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...
Oh yeah! The Tandy 1000 series! I managed stores for Radio Shack back in the day when the Tandy's came out. I owned several and loved them. I used to own a TRS 80 color computer. Used to love trying to write software for it and connecting to old BBS systems to connect with other Star Trek fans. Brings back memories!
I felt so proud when I upgraded my RAM from 256K to 512K. Those were the days.
Yeah, I'm not going to date myself by talking about the hours spent on bbses playing TradeWars. While I played with PCs starting with a used IBM 588, the first home PC that was bought was the Mac SE. And after that I started building my own PCs. It was on the Mac that I was on BBSes most of the day. Then Compuserve, then AOL
Paging SYSOP...
This was my first "minimally multiplayer online" (MMO) game: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scepter_of_Goth) . 48k of ram and a 1 MHz, 8 bit CPU. Classic.
Ah, memories!
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 05, 2014, 05:14:14 PM
It is just amazing how storage costs have come down. I remember my first 20MB HD in a Tandy 1000sx - I thought I could NEVER generate that many characters and use up the hard drive...
Back in the ancient days (early 1990') the company needed a 4gb drive. it cost $9000
I remember we all crowded around the first 1GB drive! Very exciting.
After all those Zip discs, Behold the 1GB iomega Jazz drive.
I really hit the big time when I bought my first 486/33MHz machine. I couldn't believe it - and I didnt have to ad a math coprocessor to it..it was already on the chip! :)
First "PC" - commodore VIC20 - a whopping 3.5k memory. I think it was $300 and for a time I didn't have the tape recorder. Ugggh - wrote yahtzee about 3 times.
Nice! Did you opt for the 300BPS modem?
Quote from: Bromptonboy on July 07, 2014, 09:58:07 AM
Nice! Did you opt for the 300BPS modem?
OMG - BPS. I haven't thought about that for like decades. Yes - got the modem then upgraded to comm64. Hey rick, didn't you have one too?
I sold off my Commodore 128 to a buddy years ago.