Oldest Computer Hard Drive and Brand You Own

**rion** · May 15th, 2009 01:22 AM

didn't correct my last post. the quantum HD is 2GB lang.

we had lot of really old Hardrive because my bro was working on a pc shop on early 90's. I opened a lot of them and use the magnet to wrap our ride's oil filter. the magnets are really strong. two magnets could cause a mild injury.

**Jun aka Pekto** · May 15th, 2009 01:48 AM

OT

Isn't it amazing how computer motherboards have progressed over the years?

I remember having to:

1. Add my own chips for the cache (386DX and 486DX/DX2)
2. Add my own math coprocessor (386DX)
3. Add my own pipeline burst cache (with the original Pentiums)
4. Add my own video dram chips (early video cards)

**userfriendly** · May 15th, 2009 08:54 AM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

486? 1GB hard drive? Hmmmm. Trying to make a legacy MS-DOS gaming box?

Its for some old (1996 model) equipment that we use. It wont take anything newer.

I tried installing a hdd partitioned so that it will only be 1 GB but it wont accept it. Has to be 486 cause I need the ISA slots. A Pentium might work but I have not tried it.

**Jun aka Pekto** · May 15th, 2009 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by userfriendly

Its for some old (1996 model) equipment that we use. It wont take anything newer.

I tried installing a hdd partitioned so that it will only be 1 GB but it wont accept it. Has to be 486 cause I need the ISA slots. A Pentium might work but I have not tried it.

You might find ISA slots on a first-gen Pentium motherboard. I recall the Soyo motherboard of my first Pentium (P-150) had a couple of ISA slots. I still used ISA slots at the time because of my modem and Soundblaster Pro/16. ISA slots..... I recall there were two types the 8-bit (short) and 16-bit (full size).

Too bad. I had two P-200MMX pc's that had ISA slots (again for the modems). I got rid of them in 2007.

**Jun aka Pekto** · May 15th, 2009 11:16 AM

You might want to check this out. It may work although I'm not sure about the 1GB capacity limit.

Modern mobo with ISA slot:
http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.htm

**ghosthunter** · May 15th, 2009 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by userfriendly

If any of you guys are willing to let go of your old hard drives (max size 1 gig) and 486 motherboards, pls pm me.

I have a 1.2gig seagate HDD that seems to work. I just formatted it.

Model: ST51270A (if you wanna look it up).

Aside from that, I have a few 4.3gig HDDs laying around that still works. They're just too small to be of any use given that my USB flash drive has a capacity of 16gig.