$40,000 Hard Drive

mimo2005 · 01-17-2006, 08:47 AM

Back in 1985, hard drives were gigantic and not to mention insanely expensive (40MB/$40,000)

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...000-hard-drive

5 megabytes U$50,000
http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/winchest.html

**40sondacurb** · 01-17-2006, 09:00 AM

wow .

**DumberDrummer** · 01-17-2006, 09:02 AM

Hmm, I should travel back in time with this 64 megabyte SD card, and see what I can get for it.

Or maybe even that old 2 gig hdd I have

mimo2005 · 01-17-2006, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DumberDrummer

Hmm, I should travel back in time with this 64 megabyte SD card, and see what I can get for it.

Or maybe even that old 2 gig hdd I have

you ll become some kind of bill gates :)

**toxict3arz** · 01-17-2006, 03:16 PM

o .. this is good .. i was thinking about buying another hard drive

**Glaswegian** · 01-17-2006, 03:34 PM

Memories.....my first PC had a whopping 540MB hard drive - wow!!!!!

**40sondacurb** · 01-17-2006, 05:16 PM

Bill Gates once said something like, "I can imagine why anyone would need more than 64mb of ram.

**koala** · 01-17-2006, 05:57 PM

Nearly...

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" and "No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer"
From wikiquotes

Quote:

Notes: Two variants of the same quote. Attributed to him in 1981 when designing DOS's conventional memory limit as ten times the amount in his computer; Gates has denied this quote and mentions that it is always provided without a source. The quote sounds reasonable today, when Gates has so much control over the (personal) computing world, but he was hardly significant enough at the time to influence such issues. In fact, the memory limitation was hardware based: The intel 8086 processor imposed a 1MB memory limit. The 640KB limit came from the inflexible hardware architechture of the early IBM PC.

**Grove** · 01-17-2006, 08:02 PM

Don't know what he was thinking when he said that

crazijoe · 01-17-2006, 08:40 PM

My first PC didn't have a hard drive. Just 2 5.25 floppy drives.
My second PC had a 10MB HDD. Leading Edge 8088, 10MHz in turbo mode, Hercules monochrome graphics. Cost me $2K in '87

**toxict3arz** · 01-17-2006, 11:02 PM

you musta been one of the rich folks

**oldmn** · 01-17-2006, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by crazijoe

My first PC didn't have a hard drive. Just 2 5.25 floppy drives.
My second PC had a 10MB HDD. Leading Edge 8088, 10MHz in turbo mode, Hercules monochrome graphics. Cost me $2K in '87

My Laser 8088 Didn't have a HDD, 720k floppy only. Only cost me $1200 later added two, one 15 meg and a 30meg, (Couldn't emagine what I was going to do with all that space.) Don't even remember what they cost at the time.
I did at one point spend $2 meg for a HDD and felt I had got a deal.

crazijoe · 01-18-2006, 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by toxict3arz

you musta been one of the rich folks

Actually it made me money.

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldmn

I did at one point spend $2 meg for a HDD and felt I had got a deal.

Now adays it's $1 for 2 gigs

95five-0 · 01-18-2006, 07:24 AM

I remember when RAM was $50 a meg.

yustr · 01-18-2006, 07:57 AM

My freshman year in college (1973) my roommate spent $110 on a TI calculator that added, subtracted, multiplied and divided. And – here’s the pricy part - it took square roots. My dorm mate had a HP45 for which he spent $350 (I wouldn’t be surprised if that one still works like new. All the contacts were gold.)

**40sondacurb** · 01-18-2006, 11:20 AM

Every math teacher I have still b*tches about using that list of cos sin tan

.

ebackhus · 01-18-2006, 11:37 AM

I don't remember the cost of my first system, but I do remember the specs.

Intel 386SX 16Mhz, 2MB RAM, 80MB IDE HDD, 13" VGA monitor, 256K VGA 3.0 video, PC speaker sound (later bought a sound card). Citizen 180D monochrome dot-matrix printer. I got a 2400Baud modem for it too. At first it just ran DOS 5.0 but I soon upgraded to 6.22 and Windows 3.1.

We also had a Macintosh Quadra 605 that we used for word processing and stuff. Motorola 68040 CPU @ 25Mhz, 8MB RAM (I was able to up that to 20MB by popping in a 16MB EDO stick because 4MB was built-in), 160MB HDD (later upgraded to a 500MB), 14.4 modem, integrated audio. System 7.1 later upgraded to 7.5.5. I don't remember the exact model of the printer. I know it was an HP DeskWriter something-something.

yustr · 01-18-2006, 11:49 AM

Actually the 1st computer I used probably cost about $10,000,000.

We had a IBM 360/? at college. Anyone remember punch cards???

ahhh the 70's. I'm pretty sure I almost remember them...

:4-rock:

ebackhus · 01-18-2006, 12:01 PM

My mom used to tell me about the ENIAC her school had. Apparently it took up an entire floor!

There's also a computer store nearby here that sell computers of all ages, shapes, and size. The guy there was telling me how someone came in and purchased a punch card and my eyes lit up. While there I bought a dual CPU Pentium 3 system to use as a file server. It's actually on par (performance wise) with my friend's P4. This thing only sports 550Mhz on each CPU and his is 1.8Ghz!

**toxict3arz** · 01-19-2006, 12:32 AM

so do people think that if we save our 128 512 mb ram

then later in the future it will be worth .. 128,000 dollars??

i better keep mine in good condition

a gig of memory was big as a dining table back then but people carry a gig on their key chain now a days

i wonder when they will think the key chain gig of memory would be considered "huge"

and how small would the gig be in the future?

microscopic? extinct?(like the 64mb harddrive) built in gig in your finger?

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