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Posted by Ed Mullen on 06/08/07 14:26
Neredbojias wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:06 GMT Ed Mullen scribed:
>
>> You haven't lived (or have no room to brag) unless you've owned a 15
>> Mb hard drive (circa 1987) that was housed in an enclosure larger than
>> the largest of today's modern tower systems and that cost several
>> thousand (that's the closest I can come to accuracy without searching
>> my price list archives) US dollars. No, I'm not as old as dirt: It
>> just seems that way because I was in a business area that was
>> "bleeding edge."
>
> You sure? In 1987 I purchased a just-under 1 gb Priam hd for $3200. It
> came with some kind of disk-partitioning/managing software (-can't recall
> name, maybe "Disk Manager") to increase capacity.
>
99.9 % certain. I was a manager with a Sony business division and we
sold them as accessories to some of our systems. If I recall correctly,
there were two models, a 5 Mb and a 15 Mb. We sourced them from another
manufacturer but I can't remember the brand.
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