[OT] One terabyte drive
James Knott
james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 17 11:10:04 UTC 2008
Alex Beamish wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 6:04 PM, David J Patrick <djp-tnsZcVQxgqO2dHQpreyxbg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> > I remember dreaming of having one of those 10 or 20MB supra hard drives
>> > for my Amiga. Way too expensive though.
>>
>> in the late 1980s, I spen $600 for a hardware upgrade to enhance my 32k
>> (yes, kilobyte) TRS80 m102, to 256k. it never worked right.
>>
>
> Not quite in the same league, but in the early 90's I spent over $200
> to upgrade my 4M 486/66 system to 8M (so, an additional 4M) so it
> would run dBase IV under DOS for a client project (anyone remember
> extended memory?). I earned $250 on the project which paid for the
> extra memory, and also allowed me to run OS/2 faster, so that worked
> out.
>
>
I paid about $500 for a 30 MB drive & controller, for my XT clone and
memory for my first computer, an IMSAI 8080 was about $200 for 4K, back
in 1977.
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