Re: [Nolug] Hard disks

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:07, Dave Prentice wrote:
> -----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.

Absolutely. FEPs, 3270s and CICS were fundamental to some pretty
amazing technology.

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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