WD1600JBRTL for $89.99 AR

BillyBoy wrote on 1/13/2004, 8:09 PM

Boy, they're getting dirt cheap now.

I still got a pair of 2.2 GB (state of the art at the time drives) from about 12 years ago. Gulp... I paid $450 each for those puppies.

craftech wrote on 1/13/2004, 8:17 PM

Happy to see you back Bill.

John

kevgl wrote on 1/13/2004, 8:17 PM

Got a 1.2 Gig Seagate SCSI in my cupboard that cost me $2500 ...

I've got abou half a dozen 16 Meg Simms here that cost me $1500 each ...

Thank god we don't have to pay those prices any more.

Frenchy wrote on 1/14/2004, 7:21 AM

"I still got a pair of 2.2 GB (state of the art at the time drives) from about 12 years ago"

LOL

My first PC (17 yrs ago +) with an internal hard drive had a whopping 10 MB drive, yes, that's MegaByte. A co-worker had a 20 MB HDD. We thought " this is all the storage we'll need until we retire" yeah right.

That first 10 MB HDD wont even hold 3 seconds of today's DV.

johnmeyer wrote on 1/14/2004, 9:55 PM

We started a company in 1985 with three computers. We couldn't afford to buy them outright, so we leased them. Two 8086 Compaqs and one 80286 Compaq. The 268, as I remember was over $10,000, fully loaded, with color EGA (maybe it was VGA) monitor.

kevgl wrote on 1/14/2004, 9:59 PM

I used to live in a paper bag in the middle of t'road :-)

Got my first computer in 1978, Exidy Sorcerer. HDD? What the hell's that? Think it took me another 7-8 years before I had a hard drive ...

I can remember paying around $800 for a 16k RAM expansion for the Sorcerer. Imagine expanding that out to 2 Gig :-)

busterkeaton wrote on 1/16/2004, 4:24 PM

I used to live in a paper bag in the middle of t'road :-)

Ay, you were lucky then!

Every morning before breakfast our father would kill us and dance about on our grave singing Hallelujah.

You tell the kids today that and they won't believe you.

InterceptPoint wrote on 1/16/2004, 5:43 PM

Well don't forget the 10 MB drive that I bought back in 84 to upgrade my PC to a PC XT and a 256K memory board that got me up to 512K. I'm sure that combo cost me at least $500 in 1984 dollars. I added a 300 baud modem shortly thereafter for about $250. Those were the days.

amendegw wrote on 1/16/2004, 5:51 PM

I recall paying $750 for dual floppy drives to replace the cassette tape storage on my TRS-80 Model III. If memory serves correctly, the floppies were 120K each.

kevgl wrote on 1/16/2004, 6:19 PM

Yeah - the joys of cassette storage :-)

Thank god they have gone.

farss wrote on 1/16/2004, 6:28 PM

The first disk drives that I worked with were made in the US, held 8 MBytes of data and cost $45,000. The disk unit was pressurised with pure helium and there was one head per track. I've yet to find a drive as fast ,as the heads didn't move but for the same money today I could have 1000 times that storage in RAM