10 Megabyte Hard Disk

[Subdeacon Joe]

Only $3,495!

 

 

[Mad Dog Jack, SASS #77862]

And just last week I looked at a 4TB external drive for $127 at Costco.

[Subdeacon Joe]

And just last week I looked at a 4TB external drive for $127 at Costco.

 

And, to put it into perspective for inflation, one of the online inflation calculators produced: "$3,495 of 1980 dollars would be worth: $9,928.98 in 2013"

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Dawg, man....!

 

I remember when I installed a 20 mb hard drive in my AT clone.... buddy of my said "Wow! You'll NEVER fill THAT thing!"

 

Come to think of it... Bill Gates hisself once said "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory. "

[Church Key, SASS # 33713]

I worked with an IBM 1460 in the mid-60's that had a 200 Byte X 20K Sector storage unit about the size of a refrigerator. It was the big thing then as we were using tape drives until it came along.

[Flashpowder Hal]

I saw my first "real" computer in 1970, in a refrigerated room,

 

The size of my house, with reel-to-reel machines, whirring and clicking.

 

 

All of which fits in yer i-phone now, which has more memory

[Noz]

I worked with FADAC, the artillery's ballistic computer for 30 days in 1966.

 

It was housed in it's own 2 1/2 ton truck. You actually sat inside of the computer.

 

It boasted an unbelievable 4 kbytes of memory.

 

The readout was only numerical and was displayed on nixie tubes.

 

My company bought a Phoenix drive for our computer system in the late 1970s. It had six 16" discs and was housed in a 4 foot tall cabinet. Memory? 1 meg.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

My first Mac workstation for my graphic design business back in 1990 cost

 

$3000 - grayscale monitor

$3000 - Mac IIcx w/8 mb of Ram and 16 mhz processor

$3000 - laser printer

$3000 - 80 mb external hard drive

$1000 - b/w scanner

$2500 - misc software

 

Total $15,500

 

Just bought this Macbook for $1600...

[Subdeacon Joe]

Amazing how far and how fast computers have come.

[Noz]

A brother in law who was a high school Math teacher bought a TI calculator for $800 because it could never get any cheaper.

It did square and cube roots!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I keep a card in my desk. It is about 3"x5" and contains 100 bits (yes, bits, not bytes) of core memory. It would be from the 50s. I tried to post a picture of it but the security software here won't allow that.