1Tb drive = 931Gb of space?

aliEnRIK

BillScarab wrote: »

That's one of my all time favourite games and the reason I bought an Electron instead of a Spectrum or C64.

Have you tried oolite?

http://www.oolite.org/

I havnt, but looking through its gallery it looks like theyve done a pretty good job of updating it

Bikertov

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I started computering on an 'oric atmos' (Proper computer )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Oric_Atmos_01.jpg

But they hit me big time when I first played 'elite' on my grandfathers BBC B. Man, that takes me back ~

You are just trying to show of now, aren't you :beer: !!

Bikertov

spud17 wrote: »

In nit picking mode, there was never a year 0, so this is not a new decade.

If you're old enough you'll remember the arguments with year 2000.

I was just waiting for someone to say that !!

... and yes, I am well old enough to remember the year 2000 debates ...

And while on the age-old subjects, I remember working on a DEC PDP-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PDP-8, where you had a row of switches you had to program a RIM loader program word-by-word to boot it, and then run punched tape through it. And if the tape didn't load, you scanned it by eye to check the hole were all there, and the code / parity was correct.

My first PC was an Epson 8088 (not even an 8086) and it had 256KB RAM, a 360k Double Sided Floppy drive (wow !) and 20MB hard disk ...

Marty_J

I had Elite for my ZX Spectrum and then my Amstrad CPC.

Then I had Frontier: Elite II for my Amiga CD32.

BillScarab

Bikertov wrote: »

I was just waiting for someone to say that !!

... and yes, I am well old enough to remember the year 2000 debates ...

And while on the age-old subjects, I remember working on a DEC PDP-8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_PDP-8, where you had a row of switches you had to program a RIM loader program word-by-word to boot it, and then run punched tape through it. And if the tape didn't load, you scanned it by eye to check the hole were all there, and the code / parity was correct.

My first PC was an Epson 8088 (not even an 8086) and it had 256KB RAM, a 360k Double Sided Floppy drive (wow !) and 20MB hard disk ...

I remember paper tape well. We were also using punched cards when I started.

Oh what joy when one of them couldn't be read and we had to re-punch them. Even worse if someone dropped the deck and we had to sotr it all back into order.

aliEnRIK

Marty_J wrote: »

I had Elite for my ZX Spectrum and then my Amstrad CPC.

Then I had Frontier: Elite II for my Amiga CD32.

I had it for my spectrum too. But it never felt the same (Probably as my grandfathers joysticks were proper analogue ones)

Bikertov

BillScarab wrote: »

I remember paper tape well. We were also using punched cards when I started.

Oh what joy when one of them couldn't be read and we had to re-punch them. Even worse if someone dropped the deck and we had to sotr it all back into order.

I could actually hold the tape up to the light and 'read' it - how sad am I :rolleyes:

We used to save all the 'dots' from the punching machine, and use them as confetti when people left the company. You would empty them into the air vents of their car and turn the fan switch on full. When they got into their car and turned on the ignition ... Just like one of those snow globes ! :eek:

spud17

We used to save all the 'dots' from the punching machine, and use them as confetti when people left the company.

We used to put them down the back of each others shirts.

Back in the early '70s for 'A' level maths at school, we punched cards, sent them away and the results came back 3 days later.

That was at a pretty well regarded Grammar School, how times have changed!

Never went near a computer again until 2005.

Bikertov

davester wrote: »

1 TB is far more impressive than 931.5 MB If you said you sell me a HDD that small I have SD cards that hold more.



But formating loses some. Its also worth partitioning it too so that the computer works a little faster of finding the files you want. also makes your electronic fileing cabinet a little more organised that a mass of folders all in the same draw.

Just realised what you put - 931.5MB ?? Don't you mean GB ??

You would have an SD card with more than that, but not more than 931GB ... :rotfl::rotfl:

Surely you don't loss THAT MUCH in formatting :eek:

spaceboy

davester wrote: »

1 TB is far more impressive than 931.5 MB If you said you sell me a HDD that small I have SD cards that hold more.



But formating loses some. Its also worth partitioning it too so that the computer works a little faster of finding the files you want. also makes your electronic fileing cabinet a little more organised that a mass of folders all in the same draw.

Partitioning does not speed up your computer. The main advantages are orgaisational and also if you install windows on a separate partition from where you store all your stuff it means you can re-install windows afresh without losing everything.