ScuzzBlog: Diaries May 2020 Entry 2nd May 2020: Post 02: Disc Expanding - or not !! Disc Expanding - or not !! It is easy to forget just how expensive hard drive storage was in the early days. My first drive was just 80MB and the second that was 350MB cost me £350 and storage was costing around £1/MB and that is MB and not GB. Reflect on that. At the time a number of products came on the market for both the PC and Amiga to expand the drive capacity. Some were suitable for use on both, though I never did try them. I did try a little tool called ArCHandler which basically archived your hard drive but made the archive accessible as if it were normal files and drawers. Each time you ran anything there was a time delay so the software could decompress the files. The hard drive activity was so intense it was probably responsible for shortening the life of the drive. Anyway blah blah blah !! Not what I wanted to feature today and a tenuous link to this old paperweight I have. In the mid nineties we got through computers like confetti. Both the processor speeds and software itself was being upgraded so fast it was making kit redundant very quickly. My responsibility when kit was junked was to ensure that drives were removed and destroyed. The secretaries computer was archaic and I recall removing the drive I feature here and being so in awe of its electronics that I kept it out and used it as a paper weight. That was like over twenty five years ago and I still use the thing as a paper weight and book end. Amazingly in that time I have seen the surface of the discs slowly degrade. The drive is in a warm, dry location and not in direct sunlight and yet the surface has broken down and it is starting to accelerate away so I thought I would take some pics before it failed altogether. Suffice to say the data was backed up but is now ancient. I have a Buffalo drive that still works which is now getting also real old. Disc Expanding - or not !!

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