27 May
2005
27 May
'05
8:10 a.m.
>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:
Ethan> On 5/27/05, John Allain <allain at panix.com> wrote:
> >>> I can't remember any hard disks
greater then >>> 50MB being
> available even into the late 1980's.
>
> >> CDC 9766's in 1979...
>
> We were very familiar with the CDC 300 MB type units round about
> 1983, when they were getting a bit old.
Ethan> ISTR we got our 450 MB RA81 in the middle of 1984. It wasn't
Ethan> really groundbreaking compared to the rest of the industry,
Ethan> but it was pretty big for DEC. On the -10 side, I am pretty
Ethan> sure the RP07 (at 512MB) was contemporaneous, but I can't
Ethan> recall its exact year of release.
I think the RP07 is closer to 1981, at least I see traces of them in
source code dated 1981.
Then again, the RP07 is a rather big cabinet, while the RA81 is a rack
mount unit the same size as an RK05 or RL02.
paul