>
> In one of my more perverse claims to pride, I actually issue a purchase order
> to IBM for a 5 MB 5.25" Full Height hard-drive for $4100 in 1984, to be installed
> in an IBM PC.
>
> And it was a godsend . . .
>
> When PC DASD (Hard-Drives) hit $1/MB, I was in shock. Now it's $1/GB.
> When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock. Now you can get 1 GB or RAM
> for a little over $100 . . .
>
> I hate being old.
me too.
i remember installing my first 11/70 in december 1975. it had an rp-04
88mb drive that cost only $35,000. it had core memory. about 96k. we
went for an upgrade to 128kb. then along came cmos memory and i got a
half megabyte for about $31,000. such a deal!
you could still make money timesharing in those days: i'd resell that
disk space to users for $35/mb/month. it soon graduated into in rp-06
and then (getting bolder) into 4 cdc 9766en and then came the fuji
eagle! i was the first customer to keep (cuz we debugged) the System
Industries mass bus interface.......
oh well
dave
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