{"id":370,"date":"2007-09-24T12:10:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=370"},"modified":"2007-09-24T12:42:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:42:43","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-10-megabyte-hard-disk-3900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/370\/retro-scan-of-the-week-10-megabyte-hard-disk-3900","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> 100 Megabytes: $45,700"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"white_caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/morrow_hd_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/morrow_hd_small.jpg\" alt=\"Morrow Designs Hard Disk Advertisement\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/127\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t the first time<\/a> VC&#038;G has featured an expensive vintage hard disk, and it should be no surprise to any computer user that computer storage media prices have been decreasing in price exponentially since they were invented.  But it&#8217;s still fun to marvel at the former cost of what we take for granted today.<\/p>\n<p>Take this ad for a 10 megabyte Morrow Designs Winchester disk drive: the lowest capacity unit sold for $3,695 (US), which is <a href=\"http:\/\/data.bls.gov\/cgi-bin\/cpicalc.pl\" target=\"_blank\">equivalent to<\/a> $8,451.63 in 2007 dollars.  The ad says you could bundle together four of their 26 megabyte hard drives for a total of 104 megabytes.  The cost? $19,980, which translates to a stunning $45,700.57 in 2007 dollars.  To put that into perspective, $45,700 could buy you roughly 120 terabytes of consumer-level hard drive storage today &#8212; 1,153,846 times more space than in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays you can sneeze and blow 104 megabytes off into space without realizing it.  In 1981, 104 megabytes could crush you to death.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE, January 1981 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time VC&#038;G has featured an expensive vintage hard disk, and it should be no surprise to any computer user that computer storage media prices have been decreasing in price exponentially since they were invented. But it&#8217;s still fun to marvel at the former cost of what we take for granted today. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}