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Hah! 10mb in an IBM clone in the 80's. Later a 70mb Unix box was able to run an entire business (10 Wyse Terminals) with that. 4mb of memory iirc. The 70mb Un
by gist 9y ago
Hah! 10mb in an IBM clone in the 80's. Later a 70mb Unix box was able to run an entire business (10 Wyse Terminals) with that. 4mb of memory iirc.
The 70mb Unix drives were iirc about $4000 in 80's dollars. Or maybe that was the 4mb of memory. I actually have the sales brochure and have to dig that up.
Edit: Yes I do mean 10MB!
- tetha 9y agoour first 286 at home eventually got upgraded with a 10 mb HDD. you could store 3 entire floppies on that, and those games would load so fast. And then you had monsters like DoTT or Monkey Island coming on 12 floopies or so. Haha. 30G or so for War of the Chosen still boggles my mind sometimes.
- vanviegen 9y agoI think you mean about 30 floppies, at 360kb each, right?
- redler 9y agoLuxury! I paid $400 to have the 400K floppy drive in my Mac 512K upgraded to an 800K drive. And we liked it.
- mikestew 9y agoEdit: Yes I do mean 10MB! Oh, I believe you. I say that because I was skimming to see if anyone could "beat" me. You tied. :-) And the only reason I was skimming was to comment to parent, who said they thought they'd never fill a 13Gb drive: yeah, that's what I thought when I bought a 10Mb drive 30 years ago. Now, I don't think you can even buy media that small. Hell, the internet is infested with single web pages that wouldn't fit on that drive.
- userbinator 9y agoHard drives back then actually had capacities in binary megabytes, and often even slightly more. The "10MB" HDD in the first PCs held 10653696 bytes, and the "5MB" one 5326848 bytes.