Post #2959419
2026-05-12 01:05 UTC
whoops, surprise hard drive inside!
this one is a Seagate ST-506, a MFM drive with a whopping 5MB capacity!
Replies (4)
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@tubetime@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 01:07
after taking out 894375037 screws, the actual drive reveals itself.
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@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 01:07
@tubetime@mastodon.social it's MFM Monday!
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@static@aus.social 2026-05-12 01:09
@tubetime@mastodon.social Well that would explain the weight... I actually hadn't known for years after the 3½" FDD appeared on PCs that full-height drives had existed earlier. Discovered this when I bought an Ensoniq Mirage, which booted off a 3½" diskette. A single-sided diskette, too.
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@ChuckMcManis@chaos.social 2026-05-14 02:00
@tubetime@mastodon.social Dude, that is the OG Hard Drive there, ya gotta respect what it heralded in the years to come. I mean sure, you can get a short M.2 drive today that holds as much as a million of those drives could but hey, on a minicomputer or a CP/M system, it was So Much Space!