Re: [UUG/MLUG] Hdd's?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Jim Bradley wrote:

> ** Reply to message from EMAIL:PROTECTED on Mon, 03 Jan 2000 14:34:23
> 
> > Way back in the olden days when 1.08GB drives cost $500, I bought one.
> 
> When I graduated from Mizzou in 1985, it cost me ~$600 for a 10 Mb drive with a
> controller card. Your "olden days" don't go back too far! :)


It gets worse.  Like Nimrod, I thought I had an "olden days" story about
my first hard drive:  In late 1986 or early 1987 I paid about $400 for a
30 MB hard drive.  It was really a 20 MB drive with an RLL controller that
allowed me to format to 30 MB.  I told an old professor about it a few
years ago and he told me that in 1967 they managed to convince the
university (U of Wisconsin, Madison) to shell out the money for a hard
drive for their massive computer.  The hard drive cost $66,000 and held
only 2 MB.  That's the best "olden days" hard drive story I know, but I'd
like to hear more.

Mike

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Michael B. Miller
University of Missouri--Columbia
http://taxa.psyc.missouri.edu/~mbmiller/