6 Jun
1998
6 Jun
'98
1:53 p.m.
My first hard disk was a 10mb Tandy external for $999.00 or
$100.00/mb....of course this was in 1985.
James
BTW, I still have it and it stil works.
Uncle Roger wrote:
At 10:12 AM 6/5/98 +1000, you wrote:
it didn't have more was that I was paying for
it, and the cost of 8Mb of
memroy and 200Mb of disk, plus computer was lots. You tend to forget how
much disk space used to cost, I've got the bill somewhere for the 200Mb
Quantum SCSI disk - it was over AUD$2K. Total system cost was about $10K :-(
I recently came across an old invoice for a hard drive I had bought. This
was mail-order from a wholesaler, in 1993. $287 got me a Maxtor 213MB SCSI
drive. Which is a little over $1/MB.
Nowadays, Price Club has 5/6GB drives for about a nickel/MB.
(Of course, my first ever hard disk was a used ST-225 (and HDC) for $250 --
about $10/MB...)
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