Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

[dave mallery <dmallery@cia-g.com>]

> 
> In one of my more perverse claims to pride, I actually issue a purchase order
> to IBM for a 5 MB 5.25" Full Height hard-drive for $4100 in 1984, to be installed
> in an IBM PC.
> 
> And it was a godsend .  .  . 
> 
> When PC DASD (Hard-Drives) hit $1/MB, I was in shock.  Now it's $1/GB.
> When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock.  Now you can get 1 GB or RAM
> for a little over $100 . . . 
> 
> I hate being old.

me too.

i remember installing my first 11/70 in december 1975.  it had an rp-04 
88mb drive that cost only $35,000.  it had core memory. about 96k.  we 
went for an upgrade to 128kb.  then along came cmos memory and i got a 
half megabyte for about $31,000.  such a deal!

you could still make money timesharing in those days:  i'd resell that 
disk space to users for $35/mb/month.  it soon graduated into in rp-06 
and then (getting bolder) into 4 cdc 9766en and then came the fuji 
eagle!  i was the first customer to keep (cuz we debugged) the System 
Industries mass bus interface.......

oh well

dave

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