Re: [Nolug] Hard disks from Dave Prentice on 2003-11-01 (nolugarchives)

From: Dave Prentice <prentice_at_instruction.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:07:24 -0600
Message-ID: <01c3a03e$6b75bac0$6500000a@Dave.HOME>

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson <ronjohnsonjr@yahoo.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:21 AM
Subject: [Nolug] Hard disks
>Ok,
>
>Who here remembers when hard disks were measured in dollars per
>megabyte? How about hundreds of dollars per megabyte? Joey and I
>are old enough. Scott? Who else?
>
When I used to work at IBM (1980s), we charged about $1800 for a 10MB
drive.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

>Machines are so fast today, and yet, in the early 80s, IBM was able
>to build a system with 1.9 MIPS & 6MB RAM that delivered sub-second
>response time to 70 on-line users.
>
That's because they didn't use Windoze.
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