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| RandyT:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on June 18, 2010, 04:17:40 pm ---This isn't entirely true. When the SFD-1001 drive hit the scene there were 5, 10, 20, even 40 MB hard drives. Hell, you could spend $800 and get a Lt. Kernal hard drive for the Commodore 64 even...20MB. --- End quote --- I think what the author was stating is that they were on par with some hard drives available at that time, not that they were larger or preferable. I also think your dates are a little off for those capacities and prices. I paid 6 bills for a 65meg in '89 I think. That was considered mass storage. I still have a Compute! magazine or two floating around here from the early 80's with very, very expensive 5 meg drives listed for sale. RandyT |
| FrizzleFried:
All I know is that my buddy Tom bought a Lt. Kernal 20MB hard drive for $800+... must have been 1985-1986 at the latest. |
| MonMotha:
My PC XT clone had a 20MB HDD some time in the mid-80s. It was also decked out with a full 640k of RAM and I don't think cost more than a few thousand, so the hard drive couldn't have been more than a thousand or so of that. Upper 3 figures to low 4 figures for a 20-40MB HDD in the mid-80s sounds about right. It would have been much higher even in the early 80s, though. |
| fallacy:
Just how old are you people? why would you want that :dunno |
| Havok:
--- Quote from: fallacy on June 19, 2010, 01:36:08 pm ---Just how old are you people? why would you want that :dunno --- End quote --- We're the age that was around for arcades. Not the crap they try and pass off as an arcade now. I always wonder why the younger kids get into this stuff - they think an arcade is some skeeball and skill cranes. Using old 8 bit computers is a nostalgia thing for when we were growing up. I have my Duo Core Windows 7 machine, and right next to it is an Atari 800XL... |
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