[rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
- From: "Robert Lilley" <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:13:28 -0400
Back in 1983 just before the world of PC's dawned, I was buying proprietary
electronic photo-optical typesetting equipment. One of the options was the
20 megabyte Winchester hard drive for $25,000. Hard drive like this one
were common just a few years later on IBM XT PCs - what did they cost -
$2,500? I think today you can buy 20 megabytes storage for $0.025? I still
have one of those Winchester monsters alive and kicking in an old AT&T 7300
Unix PC built in 1985. Like old things in general, they were built to last.
Rob
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Wild
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
My first foray into the computer world was a Sinclair ZX80 with 1k of memory
of which I think, 512 bytes were ROM and 512 were RAM. I think it cost about
£400! The next edition which was the ZX81 had 4k memory. To make it go
faster, I did a bit of machine code programming.
John
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[mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings
Sent: 17 October 2008 13:01
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
That was about the time I bought a Commodore PC (IBM compatible) with a
whopping 10mb harddisk :-)
Daniel
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:39 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> In 1987 I bought 2 Mb of ram for 2000 UKpounds. I reflected the other
> day that at 1987 prices my 32Gb iPod Touch is worth 32 million pounds
> in memory alone :-) Frank
>
>
> --- On Fri, 17/10/08, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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