Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Here's a copy of a page from 1998 which lists the hardware Google was using when it was a university project for a few Computer Science students.
http://backrub.tjtech.org/May1998/hardware.htm
The machines aren't particularly quick by todays standards, but more surprising is the storage. I counted:
9 x 9gb = 81gb
8 x 9gb = 72gb
3 x 9gb = 27gb
6 x 4gb = 24gb
8 x 9gb = 72gb
10 x 9gb = 90gb
= 366gb.
That stuff was all donated as it cost far too much for even a university to fund/have available, and it was a fully working search engine indexing 25 million pages.
Today, £108 pounds gets you 400gb
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=99731
And people will complain about running out of space.
How did we manage 
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Andrew
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abdus
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Registered: 23rd Feb 06
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the lego part
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Gavin
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: West Midlands
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think i got my first computer in 1996(ish)
it had 3gb of memory
pew pew pew pewwwww
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Nismo
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The PC i got in 98 had a (and i quote the sticker on the front) "A massive 4GB of storage space"
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Jodi_the_g
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Location: Washington D.C
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I remember having a 500mb hard disk and my mates where jealous as it had a Pentium processor instead of a 486.
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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my first computer was a DX66 486 running at 66mhz. 8MB RAM, 1MB VRAM and a 950MB HDD. that was back in 1995. Badass
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DAYZEE
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Registered: 13th Nov 00
Location: Stevenage, MR2 Turbo, 328i Coupe, CBR600F
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My first computer was a 'Wang'. 80286, 10mhz, 5.25" floppy, 20Mb HDD. oh yeah. it rocked.
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