10 MB XCOMP Hard Drive - $3398.00

 

No mail in rebate or promo code required!

WOW! cutting edge technology... hahahahaha   

4 platters for 10MB? Whoa. It's crazy to think we're at 500GB per platter now on consumer drives that are $100.

 

I wish that ad had a date on it.

ST506 takes me back a bit... The original "cable select" cable system. Separate control and data cables. 

 

 

Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM.

Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088

Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM.

Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088

 

That sounds like a trash 80 you're talking about. lol

Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM.

Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088

I still have 2 8" half-height floppy drives down in the basement, and a full-height 8" floppy drive too. 

(hard sectors, for CP/M use)  Brand new...  Just could not bear to throw them away. 

 

Hard to get new floppy disks for them though....    but they do make great conversation pieces.

 

Some day I'll harvest the stepper motors from them and throw the rest away...

 

Joe L.

Remember when only had 2 8" floppy drives, no Hard Drives, 64K RAM.

Those were the days. Pre-DOS, Pre-8088

 

That sounds like a trash 80 you're talking about. lol

Actually it was "desktop version" of IBM Series 1.  Programmed via EDL (Event Driven Language) or COBOL.

4 platters for 10MB? Whoa. It's crazy to think we're at 500GB per platter now on consumer drives that are $100.

 

I wish that ad had a date on it.

 

It was 1980.

 

See also this:

 

Yes, but to get 300Meg for under $20,000 you had to purchase between 40 and 69 disks.  (*OEM quantity pricing)

 

That "case" of 40 disks was then worth $800,000 and in total was only 1.2TB.  I'll bet they charged for shipping too. 

 

Joe L.

 

Joe L. -

 

I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right?

Will unRAID support it? I want to make sure before I buy 5 of them. 

70ms Seek times! That is SOLID PERFORMANCE right there!! lol

Joe L. -

 

I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right?

300 Meg = .3 Gig

4 disks would be 1200 Meg, or 1.2 Gig

 

40 Disks would be 12 Gig for only $800,000.    (We were both wrong...  )

 

Wow... who back then would ever foresee 30 years later we could get 2TB drives for $100 if you get a good sale.

 

To put it in perspective

Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago

20,000 / 300 = $66.666 per Megabyte

Price today

100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte

Joe L. -

 

I am sure you meant ~1.2Gb not 1.2TB, right?

300 Meg = .3 Gig

4 disks would be 1200 Meg, or 1.2 Gig

 

40 Disks would be 12 Gig for only $800,000.    (We were both wrong...  )

 

Wow... who back then would ever foresee 30 years later we could get 2TB drives for $100 if you get a good sale.

 

To put it in perspective

Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago

20,000 / 300 = $66.666 per Megabyte

Price today

100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte

 

More accurately you should compare the price then for single drive:

 

Price per Megabyte of storage 30 years ago

$3398 / 10MB = $339.8 per Megabyte

Price today

100 / 2000000 = $0.00005 per Megabyte

 

Which is almost 7 million times more lower !!!!

Wooohooo the ad says it supports 8bit systems. Man I'm ready where do I buy one of these bad boys.

Also note that $3398 is equivalent to around $9000 today. I think you're cool if you had a hard drive of any size in 1980!

and to think I had one of those at one time. heh.

Of course it was the mid to later 80s.

Also note that $3398 is equivalent to around $9000 today. I think you're cool if you had a hard drive of any size in 1980!

And that was for the 10 Megabyte drive.

 

Joe L.