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I don't know about that. There is still a lot of work being done in open source/hardware. Then again, these people are "the experts".

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>It’s hard to overstate the impact desktop 3D printing has had on the making and hacking scene. It drastically lowered the barrier for many to create their own projects, and much of the prototyping and distribution of parts and tools that we see today simply wouldn’t be possible via traditional means. What might not be obvious to those new to the game is that much of what we take for granted today in the 3D printing world has its origins in open source hardware (OSHW). Unfortunately, [Josef Prusa] has reason to believe that this aspect of desktop 3D printing is dead.

I don't know about that. There is still a lot of work being done in open source/hardware. Then again, these people are "the experts". Archive: https://archive.today/bmP8D From the post: >>It’s hard to overstate the impact desktop 3D printing has had on the making and hacking scene. It drastically lowered the barrier for many to create their own projects, and much of the prototyping and distribution of parts and tools that we see today simply wouldn’t be possible via traditional means. What might not be obvious to those new to the game is that much of what we take for granted today in the 3D printing world has its origins in open source hardware (OSHW). Unfortunately, [Josef Prusa] has reason to believe that this aspect of desktop 3D printing is dead.

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I remember by firs 20gb HDD. I thought I would never be able to fill it. Then Napster came out. Yep.....

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ST-251? Oh shit, you said gb. I was thinking mb.

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I remember by firs 20gb HDD. I thought I would never be able to fill it. Then Napster came out. Yep.....

Lol, I remember getting a 40 MB (yes, megabyte) HDD and using XTree to see that I had 10K files on the drive and still over 30 MB of space free. I felt like the storage was incredibly vast and we hit the pinnacle of storage achievement. I bought an 85 MB drive the next year.

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XtreeGold ftmfw

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XtreeGold ftmfw

Yup, but this was before XTreeGold or even XTreePro existed. Plain old XTree was all we had back then. It was a game changer back in the 80s.

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The oldest/smallest one I remember having as a spinning disk in a old ass 386 (shit it was probably a 286 actually) was about 325mb. Before that it was all floppies and stuff.

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My original 286 had a 10mb hdd, and 3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives.

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The oldest/smallest one I remember having as a spinning disk in a old ass 386 (shit it was probably a 286 actually) was about 325mb. Before that it was all floppies and stuff.

My first HDD was a 20 MB Seagate ST-225 MFMN drive on a PC-XT clone. Before that was 5.25" floppies on a C-64 and tapes on a VIC-20. Ah, good times.

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That was a maxtor that I remember….that was in the 386-486 days.