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[–]VampireOnTitus 1 point2 points ago

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Damn, that's a lot. But I need all the storage I can get, put me down for one.

[–]VampireOnTitus 0 points1 point ago

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Like when you spend way too much gold on a four-slot handbag...same sort of principle.

[–]ShirePony 1 point2 points ago

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I setup my first client on a Tandy 6000 with one of these drives. We had 6 people running on that machine over serial terminals and it was awesome. That's 6 people on an 8mhz Motorola 68000 processor.

Ah, those were the days...

[–]TheHGT 1 point2 points ago

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What a bargain. I could store up to three songs on that bad boy.

Can you imagine anyone back then thinking "One day, we'll have hard drives that hold a million megabytes. And they'll all be filled with porn."

[–]salzone0816 1 point2 points ago

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If it weren't for porn, 15mb would still be the maximum hard drive capacity.

[–]PilotPirx 0 points1 point ago

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Nobody was thinking about video (or even music) very much than. When I bought my first 500MB HD in the early 90s I thought this would last for ever. Games still came on floppy disks, the really big games used up to 4 of them. Though IBM's OS/2 being delivered on some 40 floppies made us think if the floppy was really the thing for the future :)

Hey, 640kb is enough for everybody. Having 64MB memory in the 90s was the sign of the true nerd.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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It would probably have been cheaper to string a bunch of floppy drives together. o_O

[–]TwistedStack 0 points1 point ago

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Just more inconvenient. For the sake of comparison, assuming the floppies are single-sided double density 5 1/4" floppies, you'd need 96 of them to get 15 MiB. A box of ten floppies in 1990 was $50** which means you'd spend $500 to get a bit over 15 MiB.

My dad didn't bother with hard drives in the 80s. We just used two 5 1/4" drives instead.

** Citation needed

[–]fsckit 0 points1 point ago

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A box of ten floppies in 1990 was $50

I was paying less than £10 for a box of floppies about that time. And they were 3.5" DDs too.

[–]TwistedStack 0 points1 point ago

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My bad. I got a box of high density 5 1/4" floppies for $50 in 1990. Memory fail.

Depends on where you are I guess. I also got a box of high density 3 1/2" floppies for $100 at that time.

[–]LeoPanthera 0 points1 point ago

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[–]randomrealitycheck 0 points1 point ago

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My second system was a PC-XT with a 5 megabyte 5.25 full height hard drive and that was the state of the art at the time. I paid something like $5K for it brand new (including the controller card) installed.

About a year or two later I upgraded to a 20 MB Seagate ST225 and was sure that I would never fill it up.

[–]rib-bit 0 points1 point ago

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I remember when the new Compaq 386 came out, we were excited that it came with 640K of ram and a 20MB Hard Disk -- for under $5000!

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386)