I recall my father paying about that amount for a 5 MB hard drive for the Model I a year or so earlier than that one was available.
I remember when the IBM XT first came out with a 20 meg hard drive. Everyone laughed because of the massive size overkill. Who could possibly ever fill up a 20 meg hard drive?
My programming prof told us the first time he worked at a station with a hard drive it was bigger than his monitor and shook the floor during reads and writes.
I still remember how I lusted after the five megs for $5,000 hard drive for my Apple II when it was first announced. I bought an IBM system 40 at an auction a few years ago for $5. They loaded it on my truck with a forklift and it lowered the bed (3/4 ton truck) about 5". The permanent magnet in the 65 meg hard drive was as big as your fist.
I remember the old 133mhz Windows 3.1 system I had that was $2000 when I first got it... I thought it was cool at the time... Then again, I thought the Atari I had was pretty cool back then also.
where can i buy it lol jk. it really is incredible how computers are getting better. i dont know if any of you are familiar but in the town that i grew up in we used to have a huge digital manufacturing plant. to say the least digital went from a giant to being bought out by compaq
So you grew up in Maynard, Massachusetts? It's a couple towns away from me, my father was a high executive for Digital Corporation.
I’m not that old. When I went to school we already had the new green screen pc that only needed a floppy disk to boot.
my first exposure to computers (outside of my C64 ) were the "Trash 80's" in junior high TRS 80 Frickin' sweet:
PayItForward is it your site? I got it on front page of digg let me know how many link did you get from that alexa jump from 300k to 80k
Long ago I worked at a company that had a VAX 11/751 for their CAD systems... There were 2 large drum disks that were attached to the machine. They were never shut off, except for one time when the a/c failed in the computer room. As one of them spun down, it started hopping across the floor and wound up banging itself against the wall until it was completely spun down.
I had a couple of those too... The Model I's. When they were on they used to interfere with TV reception. Channel 2 was complete snow, channel 4 and 5 were snowy but you could still see them. Above that the picture was ok. I remember that the connection from the keyboard to the expansion interface was a ribbon cable... If the cable was completely seated it wouldn't work, the left side of the connector (on the EI side) had to be pulled out about a 1/4 inch in order for it to work properly.
you are one lucky guy, I should 've steal your blog post and put it on mine.. almost 900 dugg...do you have your 50000 visitor yet?