{"id":127,"date":"2006-05-01T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2007-12-22T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T19:37:37","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-10-megabyte-hard-disk-3495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/127\/retro-scan-of-the-week-10-megabyte-hard-disk-3495","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> &#8220;10 Megabyte Hard Disk: $3,495&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/10meghd_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/10meghd_small.jpg\" alt=\"NES Power Glove Manual\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Before you get excited about the low, low price for ~10,000,000 bytes of random-access magnetic data storage, make sure you read the fine print.  Turns out the $3,495 price is for a <em>refurbished<\/em> unit only.  The new 10 megabyte hard disk retails for a whopping $4,495.  Oh, and there&#8217;s another catch: the price is in 1980 dollars (US).  Adjusted to 2005 dollars, that comes to around $11,415.77. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn&#8217;t one of your 3.5&#8243;, half-height 5 1\/4&#8243; or even full-height 5 1\/4&#8243; hard drives either.  No; it&#8217;s a hulking, old-school, non-Winchester jobbie that takes interchangeable disk cartridges.<\/p>\n<p><em>I want one.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get excited about the low, low price for ~10,000,000 bytes of random-access magnetic data storage, make sure you read the fine print. Turns out the $3,495 price is for a refurbished unit only. The new 10 megabyte hard disk retails for a whopping $4,495. Oh, and there&#8217;s another catch: the price is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}