Posts Tagged ‘hard drive’

1983 -IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT (eXtended Technology). It features a Intel 8088 processor,  10MB hard drive, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM and double-sided 360 kB floppy drive. For $4995, it’s all yours.

The IBM PC XT was the successor to the IBM PC. It was developed until April 1987.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• Sierra and Broderbund announce the merge to Sierra-Broderbund
• The first GHz processors begin to ship
• Sun sues Microsoft

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As an IT administrator in a previous life, I know that keeping data safe is key #1. It would have been nice to have this product on all the notebooks in the office. Especially one instance where the employee found a legal way around keeping their machine with all of our data on it.

LoJack for Laptops / Computrace creates a partnership with Intel for Anti-Theft Technology – Think of it like a Kill switch if your machine gets lost, stolen, or taken in any way possible. The laptop will be rendered useless until it comes back to the owner, in which they can then turn the machine back on. It litterally Bricks the machine.

Andy McCaskey talks with Stephen at CES about this “poison pill” technology. Best part is this option is incorporated in the laptop – Like a Dell laptop, in where you get a 1 year membership. Even a “wiped” hard drive can be detected and LoJack will load their software to brick the device.

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Back in the Windows NT days, you would get a basic copy of this software to defragment the drive. I remember using it all the time to clean up someone’s system. After making all adjustments, people would be amazed how much better the computer ran.

We forget nowadays that machines still need to be defragmented so we don’t loose data. That is where Diskeeper 2010 comes in. The system will make sure your running at peak efficiency. It’s preventative tools can keep drives fragment free throughout their life spans.

Jeffrey Powers talks with Michael over how the newest version works. With Diskeeper 2010, you won’t have to defragment and defragment again. Greener solutions by keeping the drive organized is the key. Windows desktop machines and Server machines.

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Local Integrated Software Architecture (LISA)

1983 – at an introductory price of $9995, Apple introduces the Lisa computer – the first computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). The computer featured a 5 MHz 68000 microprocessor, 1 MB RAM, 12″ monochrome monitor, dual 5.25″ 860 KB floppy drives, a 5 MB hard drive and more. Lisa cost Apple Computer US$50 million to develop. The software for it cost Apple Computer US$100 million to develop.

“Lisa” is an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• I Love Lucy gave birth on TV
• First IBM PC virus was “the Brain”
• New York sets up 911 to accept photos from cell phones.

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1990 – The Chicago Task raids the home of Craig Neidorf – A.K.A. Knight Lightning. The group, along with Bellsouth, are looking for information on an article published in the hacker rag “PHRACK – Control Office Administration of Enhanced 911 Service”. The article was written by “the Eavesdropper” and contained information that was obtained by documents stolen from Bellsouth.

The group doesn’t have a warrant, but when they show up the next day with one, Neidorf’s hard drive comes up missing. Craig will then be arrested for tampering.

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Other Technology History Facts

• Stac Electronics sues Microsoft for Patent infringement
• TRS 80 Model 12 is introduced
• NewsCorp and MySpace are sued because 4 girls are sexually assulted

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1945 – Reynold Johnson put 50 – 24 inch disk platters into a series and the first hard drive was born. The IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) ran at 1,200 rpm and held 5 MB of data. The cost for this drive was $10,000 / MB.

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Other Cool items in the Day in Tech History

• Maxtor DiamondMax
• Brad Silverberg leaves Microsoft
• DC Comics goes online

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2008 -Real launches a new program that will allow you to put your DVDs and other format movies onto the hard drive. It instantly became a hotbed of controversy as the software raised the question: can you legally copy the data to another media? The battle started in court and at this current point, RealDVD is on an injunction of sales.

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Other items in the Day in Tech History:

• Realtime updates of VDNS
• RIAA sues 261 including Brianna LaHara, a 13 yo girl
• Richard Kenadek pleads not guilty on Davy Jones Locker BBS

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2008 – Judge Neil Wake ruled:

The Defendant – Jeffery Howell had willfully and intentionally destroyed evidence related to his peer-to-peer activities after being notified of pending legal action by the RIAA. Furthermore, since it was done in bad faith, it “therefore warrants appropriate sanctions.

The RIAA went after Pamela and Jeffrey Howell for copyright infringement back in 2006. They claimed Kazaa was used to make copyrighted files available for download. Jeffrey then tried to cover his tracks by erasing the hard drive. Not a good practice, there.

Other items in Day In Tech History:

• The SCO Group is born
• TeamSpeak
• HP closes the EDS merger

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Had to work on a laptop, so I thought I would show you all how you can remove a Hard drive from the laptop.

Something happened to me yesterday that not only took me by surprise, it threw my whole day off. My laptop stopped working. I closed the case to get ready to go to the coffee shop and the hard drive started clicking. When I turned the computer off then back on, the hard drive wouldn’t initialize.

I took the drive out of the laptop and ran diagnostics on it. No problems. I ran a full CHKDSK and fixed some bad sectors. I then proceeded in full backup and cleanup mode (removing files, defragmenting, etc). When I popped the drive back in there was no issues. I went on with my life.

Not all computers are lucky like that. While I am still not sure what happened, I am lucky it wasn’t broken. The best I can figure is the hard drive might have unseated from the laptop. I am being cautious with the machine, but in the meantime, I attribute this weeks (late) Bitstrips to the computer surgical skills.