Rajahal Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 No mail in rebate or promo code required! Quote Link to comment
sakh1979 Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 WOW! cutting edge technology... hahahahaha Quote Link to comment
ClunkClunk Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment
Kaygee Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 ST506 takes me back a bit... The original "cable select" cable system. Separate control and data cables. Quote Link to comment
graywolf Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM. Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088 Quote Link to comment
PhilH Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment
graywolf Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment
theone Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 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: Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment
sakh1979 Posted September 2, 2010 Share Posted September 2, 2010 Joe L. - I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right? Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Will unRAID support it? I want to make sure before I buy 5 of them. Quote Link to comment
maximusfacq Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 70ms Seek times! That is SOLID PERFORMANCE right there!! lol Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment
theone Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 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 !!!! Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 Wooohooo the ad says it supports 8bit systems. Man I'm ready where do I buy one of these bad boys. Quote Link to comment
shawn Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 and to think I had one of those at one time. heh. Of course it was the mid to later 80s. Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment
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