[GH85Carrera]

I am still downloading the big files. Working on one right now that is 1.46 Gig. It still just astonishes me what is possible in 2014. I so vividly remember when Seagate engineers came in with the first prototype one Gig hard drive. At the time I had a 32 Meg hard drive and that seems large. That one Gig drive was still a prototype and was going to go on sale in a few months for a couple of thousand bucks. One gig was a HUGE amount of storage and was just a dream for me. Now I can download files that big in just a few minutes and transport them with a bunch more on a tiny little thumb drive.

When the engineers came in with the sales department they brought one of the one gig drives they sold that was the size of a microwave oven. I think it had 14 inch platters. They also brought in enough floppies to store a gig. It was a huge stack. We photographed all of them together for their sales brochures. It was real cool to go into one of the clean rooms where they made the drives. I had to suit up in the full suit and they cleaned all the camera gear. I lugged a Sinar 4x5 view camera in there and shot pictures. I was soaking wet with sweat when I finished.

The 3.5 inch hard drive was the same size as drives today, but it held only on gig. Now they are multi-terabytes.