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From: bolton
BTW have I ever mentioned how glad I am that I am not a security dude who's job it is to protect computer systems.
Do you know how much data somebody could walk away with tucked in their shoe that would be all but invisible except to X-ray?
Do you know how much data somebody could walk away with tucked in their shoe that would be all but invisible except to X-ray?
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From: Somewhere in NJ
It is just amazing about the prices of storage devices these days. I remember in the early 90's when a 1 TB external drive had a dealer cost of $1200 on Igram Micro. The other day I had a 32 GB Micro SD card for my dash cam crash, I went to Micro Center and found them for $4.99 
I worked for a local PC guy in HS (mid 80s) who sold all kinds of equipment. Was a reseller for IBM and a Hard Card (a disk that fit into an expansion slot) had 10 or 20 MB on it for some outrageous price.
When I started at BMS doing some computer work in 1994, I had a whopping 80 MB HD, then a 160, 340, 500 or some similar progression.... and finally a 1 GB drive.
The Imoega Bernouli drives in the 80s were "tiny" by today's standard (but massive in their standards) and even their Zip drive in the 90's never got to 1 TB.
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Are you sure in the early 90''s you aren't talking about MB HDs? The TB HD (in today's context of a HD is only about 15 years old!).
I worked for a local PC guy in HS (mid 80s) who sold all kinds of equipment. Was a reseller for IBM and a Hard Card (a disk that fit into an expansion slot) had 10 or 20 MB on it for some outrageous price.
When I started at BMS doing some computer work in 1994, I had a whopping 80 MB HD, then a 160, 340, 500 or some similar progression.... and finally a 1 GB drive.
The Imoega Bernouli drives in the 80s were "tiny" by today's standard (but massive in their standards) and even their Zip drive in the 90's never got to 1 TB.
I worked for a local PC guy in HS (mid 80s) who sold all kinds of equipment. Was a reseller for IBM and a Hard Card (a disk that fit into an expansion slot) had 10 or 20 MB on it for some outrageous price.
When I started at BMS doing some computer work in 1994, I had a whopping 80 MB HD, then a 160, 340, 500 or some similar progression.... and finally a 1 GB drive.
The Imoega Bernouli drives in the 80s were "tiny" by today's standard (but massive in their standards) and even their Zip drive in the 90's never got to 1 TB.
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That's 16 million Kb's.
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When I purchased my first IBM PC-XT it came with a 5Mb hard drive. I was told that I would never need more that that! 
It wasn't long after that that I upgraded to a 10Mb drive and I knew I would never need more then that!
It wasn't long after that that I upgraded to a 10Mb drive and I knew I would never need more then that!
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It's amazing how, in less than 40 years, the common smart phone today is thousands of times more powerful than the biggest IBM PCs of their day.
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From: Somewhere in NJ
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Update...
I uninstalled the AdBlock I had and installed AdBlock Pro (free) and that works great. No ads here or on a couple other sites I checked.
I tested my defunct extended hard drive on a Windows computer. It did not recognize it at all. So it is done.
I confirmed my old iMac is done as well. I had another extended hard drive that I've used on it in the past with no issues and it returned a message saying it could not be used.
After 5 days I have everything working like it did before and often 'way' better and 'way' faster.
I uninstalled the AdBlock I had and installed AdBlock Pro (free) and that works great. No ads here or on a couple other sites I checked.
I tested my defunct extended hard drive on a Windows computer. It did not recognize it at all. So it is done.
I confirmed my old iMac is done as well. I had another extended hard drive that I've used on it in the past with no issues and it returned a message saying it could not be used.
After 5 days I have everything working like it did before and often 'way' better and 'way' faster.
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From: Long Beach, MS
But preventing data theft on a closed network isn't that big a deal. Client PCs can have all their external ports disabled. Alternatively there is network monitoring software that can detect whenever an external device is attached to a client.
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And that is a big PITA when you use a company laptop to connect to other machine tools (not on the network) to troubleshoot. So glad I am retired!