Post Ar4jB5bHPCtdMQ1ecK by foone@digipres.club
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 (DIR) Post #Ar4j5cUqBZJleHPE12 by foone@digipres.club
       2025-02-13T12:07:44Z
       
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       Someone should make a ISA hard drive card for old computers, that's just a RAM drive + a supercap and an SD card. RAM is so comparatively cheap these days that you could easily have a hard drive bigger than old computers could even support.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4jB5bHPCtdMQ1ecK by foone@digipres.club
       2025-02-13T12:08:42Z
       
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       like on amazon I can get a 4gb DDR SODIMM for 9$.my family's first computer's entire hard drive was only like 200mb
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4jFSCrIZNwd9gTg0 by whvholst@eupolicy.social
       2025-02-13T12:08:47Z
       
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       @foone ISA, VESA, EISA or PCI?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4jJvUqLBMMd9EFfM by whvholst@eupolicy.social
       2025-02-13T12:09:26Z
       
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       @foone Luxury! Ours was 20 MB and that was luxurious at the time.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4jPYTqpIw4z8Rt4a by phako@chaos.social
       2025-02-13T12:10:21Z
       
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       @foone How much power takes the DRAM referesh, though?
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4jTx1xUXpuHgUy00 by foone@digipres.club
       2025-02-13T12:12:06Z
       
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       @punissuer it's a RAM drive backed by an SD card. When you power off, it flushes the RAM to the SD card, and it restores it when you power back on
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4k6wFKLFfX94LGts by silvermoon82@wandering.shop
       2025-02-13T12:18:41Z
       
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       @foone We have similar devices for other retro machines; for a long time I had a box on my c64 with a bunch of dram simms and AA batteries that worked as a hard drive. Shouldn't be hard at all to pack one into an isa card!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4l8Iw1ZTltkyWpnM by Timberwolf@topspicy.social
       2025-02-13T12:30:28Z
       
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       @foone the one which got me most recently was buying a laptop and realising, "this thing's L3 cache is bigger than my first hard drive".
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4lVOUv3SxXfarPMG by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2025-02-13T12:35:14.439074Z
       
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       @foone Or just use an ISA to USB or SD card adapter? (might need to use a ISA-SATA adaptor in between).
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4pC46L41cIj4OyRc by bayindirh@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-02-13T13:15:56Z
       
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       @foone My first hard drive was 119MB. The cheapest USB 3.x flash drive can read ~120MB/sec now.My hard-drive was 6GB in 1998. Now Thunerbolt can transfer it in a second.Sometimes the memory consumption of my IDE is bigger than the drives I had back in time.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ar4w9sbtW2JQBf4CW0 by cstross@wandering.shop
       2025-02-13T14:33:28Z
       
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       @foone Luxury! My first hard drive was 10Mb and cost me, in 1986 money, £370 (or about $600 at the time, or $2000+ in today's terms).