Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] This just in...the 1 Terabyte hard disk drive...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> Later my Father started his own computer business, in 1981.  I helped 
> install the MPM operating system (M meaning "muliple" meaning it could 
> run more than one process at a time) on the hard drive, whose size I 
> also don't remember, but maybe it was even as big as 1G.

If it was that big, that was amazing for the time and it would have cost 
many thousands of dollars.


> In fact I remember working on one of the first 286's, I think in the mid 
> 1980's.  That was quite something.

I remember them.  That's the right time -- around 1987 or so.  Just think 
of how much we were paying for that stuff!!!

A prof told me that in 1967 at UW-Madison they were finally able to get an 
HDD for their big computer in the Ag School.  It cost them $66,000 and it 
held a total of 2 MB.  (It was probably as big as a washing machine but I 
don't know that for sure.)  It was way better than running the punch cards 
over and over again when the program crashed.

Mike

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