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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.

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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

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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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