6 Jun
1998
6 Jun
'98
2:43 p.m.
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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6 Jun
6 Jun
4:53 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...)
--------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/ 
7:22 p.m.
And the first Tandy 8.4 Mb drives for the Model II in 1981 came to
about $500/Mb -- the first one (with controller) was $4495, the next
three were each $3500. We sold a boatload, so _some_ folks thought
it was a good deal. (The company found out it wasn't -- one of the
worst parts contracts the company ever signed, even worse than the
ones with Diablo for the Daisy Wheel Printer I or Centronics for the
Line Printer I). (Though those printers didn't get the Roman
numeral One attached to them until after their respective IIs came
out, like my first TRS-80 _wasn't_ a Model One until a year later).
James L. Rice wrote:
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...)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------- O-
>
> Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
> roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
> Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
> San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
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