$3398 10MB: The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For

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by umvi • 5 years ago

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mikestew• 5 years ago

I had one of those multi-thousand dollar 10MB HDs, put in my Wang personal computer (that required an x86 compatibility board to be useful beyond word processing). Meh, it was pricey, but that's just what hard drives cost back then. If you needed it, you needed it (and probably had a legitimate business/tax-deductible use for it). If you didn't need it, you did without, because only rich people have that kind of disposable income to blow on HDs that cost as much as the computer.

perl4ever3• 5 years ago

Some of the early floppy disks had a surprisingly large amount of space. I think the Tandy 8 inch discs had around 1.2 MB, so in effect, your 10MB hard drive was only five (ok, four) times the space you could have available with a dual floppy setup.

By 1990 or so, 40MB hard drives were becoming available, and floppies had shrunk physically, but not gained much capacity.

rasz2• 5 years ago

By 1990 you could buy a 600MB hard drive. 40MB was smallest capacity available, and standard was around ~100MB

1977 200MB for under $20K https://mag.metamythic.com/old-hard-disk-drive-adverts/

vangelis• 5 years ago

That's ten file cabinets of storage capacity.

Nginx487• 5 years ago

$17278 inflation-adjusted, compared to 1975 (not sure what year this ad was published)

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

$3398 10MB: The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For

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