HDD, uh.... art.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:21 am

I still think the coolest mod to hard drives are the mod to make them speakers. I should look on digg to find the article again, I have 2 10GB hard disks I can sacrafic.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:24 am

Generally, hard-drives made Pre-'95 are this size. You can find them in just about any machine thats running Windows 3.1 or below...

(I collect vintage-computers...yeah...Just look at my website in the "WWW" button thing...)

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:36 am

Here's your HD Speakers!
With a little DJ Afroman

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 7:22 am

I have an old Hard Drive like that. Its 40 GB ehich i guess was a lot for back then

40 GB...a lot....lol

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:01 am

theres a computer store in my city that has an old hard drive on display. it must be more than 30 years old, because it is the size of one of those small refrigerators, and apparently held only 20 megabytes.

the main structure is made out of cast iron

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:08 am

Sounds like a minicomputer or mainframe hard drive. Any labels or logos on it?

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:15 am

anotherperson, you have a Quantum Bigfoot hard drive. I had one too,they were pretty fast for their time.

joevennix · Post by **joevennix** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:17 am

Hey that's pretty cool, I'd definitely put it on my desk

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:42 am

atari2600a wrote:Sounds like a minicomputer or mainframe hard drive. Any labels or logos on it?

nah i dont really remember.

paul4990 · Post by **paul4990** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:23 pm

quantum made them

check google

Post by **gannon** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:01 pm

I have one too, I made it into a speaker. Was thinking of turning it into a pic based CV synth or something if I ever get around to it

tom61 · Post by **tom61** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:28 pm

atari2600a wrote:Generally, hard-drives made Pre-'95 are this size. You can find them in just about any machine thats running Windows 3.1 or below...

(I collect vintage-computers...yeah...Just look at my website in the "WWW" button thing...)

Are you sure you didn't mean Pre-'86 and running Windows 2.0?

5.25" formfactor drives in computers, with the exception of the Quantum Bigfoots, went extinct shortly after the IBM AT.

Post by **bicostp** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:04 pm

I've got an aincent Conner 40 meg HD. By some miracle it worked! I found Microsoft Works 2.0 (or 1.0...) and some program called Family Tree Maker on it. FTM is full of someone's information too! See kids, don't put your personal info on a hard drive; some guy could pull your hard drive out of a trash pile and get it all!

I would definitely make that thing into a hard drive speaker. I did it with an old 40 gb Seagate that didn't work (I applied power and nothing happened. I put it ina PC and it didnt' show up on the POST screen). The sound quality is what you'd expect from such a device. You may need to glue a piece of foam in the drive, like I did, to keep the head from parking.

Edit: I have a Quantum Bigfoot.

Adeptus · Post by **Adeptus** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:04 pm

The biggest (physically) PC HDD I've seen was a "full height" 5.25 inch drive.
You know how they often call standard CDROM drives "half height"?
Now I know why

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:12 pm

I seem to remember American Science and Surplus selling some sort of electromagnet-gun thingy specifically for wiping hard rives and floppies. And yes i remember seeing a junked computer with one of those drives it at one point.

EDIT: Curse the page break!