Comments on: Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: R.P.

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:21:14 +0000

To think that I actually went to school to learn how to work on these things. Back in the 80′s if you had 2 of these chained together you had "mass" storage.

Along with a system that had 16K of memory, an 8 port serial adapter, 150 cps dot matrix printers, now you're talking!

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: mmmj

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:52:13 +0000

And to think that my 500-GB internal hard drive only cost $200 (about $100 back then).

http://www.techdreams.org/2007/11/10-mb-hard-disk-for-3398-3495-hard.html

Charles Babbage would probably turn in his grave if he saw the 10-MB hard drive, and the scientists at ENIAC that are dead now would probably turn in their graves if they saw computer nowadays.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: RedWolf

Mon, 15 May 2006 17:32:09 +0000

Yeah.. it's a shame that people copy other people's work without proper credit.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: Bjorn Nitmo

Mon, 08 May 2006 20:23:56 +0000

I love Vintage Computing and Gaming and it bugs me that other sites rip off stories without giving credit. I noticed a clone of this entry on OhGizmo! today which gave credit to TechEBlog who doesn't give credit to VC&G. ARGH! If a newspaper ripped off a story from another newspaper everyone would freak out so why is it okay for other blogs to steal VC&G's stories?

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: 10MB Hard Disk for $3,495 » gadgetsrss

Mon, 08 May 2006 00:49:55 +0000

[…] That’s right, a 10MB hard disk for only $3,495 back in 1980 — and it’s refurbished to boot. A brand new unit would have cost you $4,495. If adjusted to 2005 dollars, that’s $11,415.77 (new)/$8876.11 (refurbished). View the full-sized advertisement here. And this isn’t one of your 3.5″, half-height 5 1/4″ or even full-height 5 1/4″ hard drives either. No; it’s a hulking, old-school, non-Winchester jobbie that takes interchangeable disk cartridges by gadgetsrss | posted in Weird, Computers Trackback URL | Comment RSS Feed Tag at del.icio.us | Incoming links […]

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: Terry

Wed, 03 May 2006 15:48:28 +0000

Awesome. I use an old hard drive as an ottoman at home. It weighs well over 50lbs, is two feet high, and three feet across. I think it was about 10megs of storage, maybe 50.

Kids these days…

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: S Beall

Tue, 02 May 2006 23:16:03 +0000

In 1985 Ampex came out with a Capricorn drive that sported 330Meg
of capacity in a small 90 pound Head disk assy, 16 inch platters and 1/3 horse 2400 rpm synchronous motor to spin it all up….I won't even go into
the CDC RSD-80 or XMD-825 and how much fun they were.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: RadarScope

Tue, 02 May 2006 03:43:09 +0000

Good thing you put the 'humor' tag on that one. That is funny. Really makes you appreciate the adoption of technology by the average person over the years, though.

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: The World of Jakanden » You think PC parts are expensive now..

Mon, 01 May 2006 12:38:19 +0000

[…] Thanks RedWolf […]

Comment on Retro Scan of the Week: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495″ by: Jakanden

Mon, 01 May 2006 12:34:45 +0000

Holy crap lol