Computer Hope
Other => Other => Off topic => Topic started by: Carbon Dudeoxide on December 10, 2008, 03:26:39 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G6cwu1XBM
I just made this video with an old hard drive I had.
Pretty sweet in real life. When defragging or doing multiple things on the drive (copying and pasting at the same time), it looks as if the arm is in two places at once, that's how fast it is.
Not sure why it's so bad quality....It's fine on my computer. I guess I'm just not a Youtuber. :D
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Another one. Much better...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxs_Txux5cA
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My friend asked me to upload all the videos I took....so here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzQPXmBp3HM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5833dLu7o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5NRnkTI1nA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKG37OjjP0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvitoqWwMc
(not including the ones above)
I didn't realise how easy Youtube is. :P
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neat! I tried to do this also, but I think the HD I took apart had a broken controller board. It span up, but the computer didn't detect it; that was a waste of a 50MB drive, that's for sure.
I didn't realise how easy Youtube is. :P
Trust me, sometimes I think it's TOO easy. Like all the Super mario 64 videos...
"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"
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"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"
Yeah.....my brother sometimes watches something similar. Commentary of video games.
I absolutely hate them and think they're a waste of time.
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"DER! I'm gonna run around and do stupid stuff and show bold blue captions annotating old cliches!"
Yeah.....my brother sometimes watches something similar. Commentary of video games.
I absolutely hate them and think they're a waste of time.
my favourite part is how all the comments are praising the poster for his taste in music, which sounds more like people throwing up in the background. Almost never a comment on, you know, the actual video. Which is good, because I'm sure half of them would just be "Wow! near the beginning though, how did you jump?"
Let's not forget all the game videos recording some secret that doesn't even exist, with obvious video glitches where they've edited it or hacked the textures or whatnot.
Anyway; the HD thing reminds me of a passage from my PC book, where the author talks about the bewildered stares he get's from his students when he runs the HD without a cover.
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Don't waste your time! Go back to HOMEWORK!! ;D
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Don't waste your time! Go back to HOMEWORK!! ;D
*sigh* It's just so fascinating to see how quickly that thing moves. :D
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OMG! I thought of something- replace the magnetic disks with paper, and attach a pen to the end of the arm... we have an automated spirograph.. sort of.
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If you don't go back to homework, you'll also see how fast your father's belt moves :D
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BC
Try stomping irregularly next to it, and you're gonna have seismograph.... :D
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which reminds me of when I tried to examine the innards of my old HD.
Didn't work, as I said, so I pushed the read head into the platter to "simulate" a head crash. the sound was very unpleasant. but somehow, it felt good, like disemboweling a demon or eviscerating a alien. Am I making any sense?
Unfortunately I didn't write down my "observations" or scientific method; I guess I just hate paperwork is all.
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Nice Carbon D... :) It looked like PeckerWood feeding.. ;D
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Wow!
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woa neat!
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drop a little paint on the disk! yay!
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omg now that would be cool! or hit it!
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drop a little paint on the disk! yay!
No thanks. ::)
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yeah... couldn't you drop paint onto ANY disc? what special significance would it have to drop some on a hard disk platter?
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because it goes really fast! lol. um. I dont know, its black and neon colored paint would look cool.
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Hmm, defragmenting is hard work. :o
Carbon, is that hard drive still functional? Is all data still intact, no data corruption? Being exposed with the hard drive case open, even tiny dust particles will cause problems, right? So, I would expect you will see data corruption or other problems quite soon.
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You should have put a plastic cap over it. It might keep running for years if you do it in a low dust environment. (EG: a plastic bag)
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Yeah, I agree with Raptor. The only drive I've had apart are some dead ones, aside from one live one that was 500MB..
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I was surprised to see it still works properly. No corruption, no data loss, nothing.
When I turn it off, I put it's cover on and when it's on, you wouldn't believe how fast it spins.
If you put your finger next to the platter, you can feel the wind it's making. I doubt any dust will land on it.
Anyways, it's a 800mb Hard Drive from ~1993 and I don't really care if it breaks or not.
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amazing how technology lasts. I have an old dell p3, my dad uses it and it runs win 2000 just fine! It's like my computer I use now except it has a CRT monitor and it's much slower given it's 7 years old!
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I just got a old Shannon 486 office PC, AMD K5 based AT system. ANCIENT, dunno if it works, but if it does, it'll be a miracle. Anyway, some things last, some things don't.
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it'll be a miracle.
Dunno about that; I have some old equipment myself- I'd have a 286 if I didn't go and scrap it last year (it still worked perfectly... well, as perfect as a 286 can, anyway).
I guess it depends on the environment it's been operated under.
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I can lay claim to almost every generation of Intel based chips....most still run if i choose to fire them up. 286; 386; 486; a first generation Pentium that had a built in math co-processor fault ( still use it ).
I never realised how fast all this time flew.
BC i'm impressed you still have a 286
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this is pretty cool
If only I didn't throw out all of my old hard drives=(
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BC i'm impressed you still have a 286
well, "had" a 286; I scrapped it, silly bugger that I was. Ahh, I remember it's hardware- a Hercules Monochrome graphics adapter, and- um, other stuff, too.
My first computer, it was; a good 6 years ago, I used it regularly. Ironically when my current rig was manufactured...
Then I had a giant 386 server- about twice the size of a standard case; at a blazing 40Mhz.
gotta remember the days of using a soldering iron to double floppy disk capacity; place a hole on the side opposite the write-protect tab on a 720K(cheaper) disk, and BAM- double-size.
I remember my old Computer science teacher gave me the 386; he had personally modified the floppy drive to save him time burning holes in the floppies, and instead removed the photosensitive detection thingy and replacing it with a front-mounted switch.
Of course, it made it imperative to be careful not to bump it while using it.
this is pretty cool
If only I didn't throw out all of my old hard drives=(
heh, I sit here, and I stare at my gargantuan 50MB hard drive... with the affectionate letters written on top, D, U,D. How untrue that proved to be, when it still works fine. (the person I got it from claimed "you can try it, but it probably won't work". lol.
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You wouldn't happen to have a Colorado 250 Qic 80 tape drive would you ? ?
That's where all my old DOS/Win98 apps reside ...
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I think so; I had some kind of tape drive. But I was new at the PC game, and thought it was broken (since it needs drivers I never had) and threw it out :(
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I had an SCSI (Scuzzy) 80GB tape drive, it was dead though, it and its reader. Sad, it was cool, old school hardware is sweet. Fun to toy with.. Unless it involves jumpers or dip switches... I hate those... Seriously hate them... Oh, I found this old 8 track player on the curb over the summer... I dunno if it works, I gotta get my dad to dig out his 8 tracks to see if it does.
To stay on topic, I love poking around inside stuff to see how it works, always have. And... GAH! The compaq based system I'm trying to install W2K on keeps going into a rebooting loop. Thought it was the CPU, RAM, GPU, everything, gotta be the board or PSU though, I've changed everything else.
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I hate those... Seriously hate them.
I collect jumpers. Coolest items ever invented if you ask me.
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I collect terminating resistors. Well, I started actually because I wanted Terminator memorabilia, and I saw it in a ad. Boy was I disapointed...
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I collect lighters...
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I collect terminating resistors. Well, I started actually because I wanted Terminator memorabilia, and I saw it in a ad. Boy was I disapointed...
True story.
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Lol @ the terminating resistors.
Here's some memorabilia for ya:
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Dead-Reckon/TerminatorCPU.png)
CPU from a T-888 as seen in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season 1.
Scary 'cause, if you watched the series, you learn that higher end PCI-E based boards can run that chip. Quite well actually.
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it wasn't funny when it happened. I was so excited waiting for my terminating resistor (I thought it was a victim of the terminator trying to resist, or something)- I could hardly brush my teeth or comb my hair...
and then it arrived, and I look inside, to find 5000 terminating resistors from 5 1/4 floppy drives.
thankfully, I was able to create a fashionable necklace for my girlfriend, who subsequently dumped me for a guy named sparkles.
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That's hilarious BC, guy named Sparkles? Hah! ;D
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I know... this stuff just... it's almost effortless for me!
Other nominations go to the names lilac, Pink Gardenia, shafty,shuffles, and Billy.
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what about gladis?
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what about her.
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Who is Gladis? Am I missing something (or rather, someone) again? GAH! Too many disappearing users to remember, evidently not too many to forget though. ;D
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I think he's trying to add names to my list.
I will, but I haven't heard any news RE: the gift certificates Broni was to recieve.