[rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
- From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:21:32 +0000 (GMT)
Yes in 1985 I was using a VAX. 3-phase electricity supply and each hard drive
in a housing like a washing machine, dust free air conditioned
environment.............
Ahh reminiscences. I had a on topic battered Rolleiflex 3.5f at the time. It
was stolen 10 years later when my house was burgled. It was stored in a brand
new Rolleiwide ERC which I had picked up for pennies in a bargain bin in a
camera store. That would be worth more than the camera nowadays :-(
Frank
--- On Fri, 17/10/08, Robert Lilley <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Robert Lilley <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Terrabyte hard drive.
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 17 October, 2008, 2:13 PM
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
> Wild
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:43 AM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Daniel Ridings
> Sent: 17 October 2008 13:01
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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