September 1, 201015 yr 4 platters for 10MB? Whoa. It's crazy to think we're at 500GB per platter now on consumer drives that are $100. I wish that ad had a date on it.
September 1, 201015 yr ST506 takes me back a bit... The original "cable select" cable system. Separate control and data cables.
September 1, 201015 yr Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM. Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088
September 2, 201015 yr Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM. Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088 That sounds like a trash 80 you're talking about. lol
September 2, 201015 yr Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM. Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088 I still have 2 8" half-height floppy drives down in the basement, and a full-height 8" floppy drive too. (hard sectors, for CP/M use) Brand new... Just could not bear to throw them away. Hard to get new floppy disks for them though.... but they do make great conversation pieces. Some day I'll harvest the stepper motors from them and throw the rest away... Joe L.
September 2, 201015 yr Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM. Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088 That sounds like a trash 80 you're talking about. lol Actually it was "desktop version" of IBM Series 1. Programmed via EDL (Event Driven Language) or COBOL.
September 2, 201015 yr 4 platters for 10MB? Whoa. It's crazy to think we're at 500GB per platter now on consumer drives that are $100. I wish that ad had a date on it. It was 1980. See also this:
September 2, 201015 yr Yes, but to get 300Meg for under $20,000 you had to purchase between 40 and 69 disks. (*OEM quantity pricing) That "case" of 40 disks was then worth $800,000 and in total was only 1.2TB. I'll bet they charged for shipping too. Joe L.
September 3, 201015 yr Joe L. - I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right? 300 Meg = .3 Gig 4 disks would be 1200 Meg, or 1.2 Gig 40 Disks would be 12 Gig for only $800,000. (We were both wrong... ) Wow... who back then would ever foresee 30 years later we could get 2TB drives for $100 if you get a good sale. To put it in perspective Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago 20,000 / 300 = $66.666 per Megabyte Price today 100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte
September 3, 201015 yr Joe L. - I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right? 300 Meg = .3 Gig 4 disks would be 1200 Meg, or 1.2 Gig 40 Disks would be 12 Gig for only $800,000. (We were both wrong... ) Wow... who back then would ever foresee 30 years later we could get 2TB drives for $100 if you get a good sale. To put it in perspective Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago 20,000 / 300 = $66.666 per Megabyte Price today 100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte More accurately you should compare the price then for single drive: Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago $3398 / 10MB = $339.8 per Megabyte Price today 100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte Which is almost 7 million times more lower !!!!
September 3, 201015 yr Wooohooo the ad says it supports 8bit systems. Man I'm ready where do I buy one of these bad boys.
September 4, 201015 yr Also note that $3398 is equivalent to around $9000 today. I think you're cool if you had a hard drive of any size in 1980!
September 4, 201015 yr and to think I had one of those at one time. heh. Of course it was the mid to later 80s.
September 4, 201015 yr Also note that $3398 is equivalent to around $9000 today. I think you're cool if you had a hard drive of any size in 1980! And that was for the 10 Megabyte drive. Joe L.
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