Former Disk Costs (was: 32 bit Macs (was Atari hard ))

From: James L. Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Sat Jun 6 20:53:11 1998

My first hard disk was a 10mb Tandy external for $999.00 or
$100.00/mb....of course this was in 1985.

James

BTW, I still have it and it stil works.

Uncle Roger wrote:
>
> At 10:12 AM 6/5/98 +1000, you wrote:
> >it didn't have more was that I was paying for it, and the cost of 8Mb of
> >memroy and 200Mb of disk, plus computer was lots. You tend to forget how
> >much disk space used to cost, I've got the bill somewhere for the 200Mb
> >Quantum SCSI disk - it was over AUD$2K. Total system cost was about $10K :-(
>
> I recently came across an old invoice for a hard drive I had bought. This
> was mail-order from a wholesaler, in 1993. $287 got me a Maxtor 213MB SCSI
> drive. Which is a little over $1/MB.
>
> Nowadays, Price Club has 5/6GB drives for about a nickel/MB.
>
> (Of course, my first ever hard disk was a used ST-225 (and HDC) for $250 --
> about $10/MB...)
>
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