{"id":74279,"date":"2017-12-08T01:51:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-was-the-portable-hard-drive-of-1985-clocking-in-at-20mb"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:03","slug":"this-was-the-portable-hard-drive-of-1985-clocking-in-at-20mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/this-was-the-portable-hard-drive-of-1985-clocking-in-at-20mb","title":{"rendered":"This Was the Portable Hard Drive of 1985\u2014Clocking In at 20MB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-was-the-portable-hard-drive-of-1985-clocking-in-at-20mb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Portable hard drives seem like they\u2019re bound to go way of the dinosaur, thanks to the rise of services like Dropbox and Google Drive. But if you wanted to take a large file home with you back in 1985, you didn\u2019t have quite so many options. Your best bet? Maybe this hard drive from Maynard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeave the computer, take the drive!\u201d the ad said in big, bold letters in the July 1985 issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/BYTE_Vol_10-07_1985-07_Computers_and_Space\/BYTE%20Vol%2010-07%201985-07%20Computers%20and%20Space#page\/n15\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Byte magazine<\/a>. And look at just how portable that thing is!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/this-was-the-portable-hard-drive-of-1985-clocking-in-at-1820248534\">https:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/this-was-the-portable-hard-d...1820248534<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable hard drives seem like they\u2019re bound to go way of the dinosaur, thanks to the rise of services like Dropbox and Google Drive. But if you wanted to take a large file home with you back in 1985, you didn\u2019t have quite so many options. Your best bet? Maybe this hard drive from Maynard. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74377,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74279\/revisions\/74377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}