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Posted by Neredbojias on 06/10/07 06:04
On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:26:37 GMT Ed Mullen scribed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:00:06 GMT Ed Mullen scribed:
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>>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
Well, I could be off a year or so in time, but I _know_ by early '89 I'd
had the Priam for quite a while 'cause I switched it to another computer
then. Anyway, I just found it surprising that such a small-capacity hd
would be so expensive (at that time). I think Seagate 40's (mb) were the
consumer pc standard about then; my appx. 860 mb Priam was near the same
size in all dimensions except twice the height.
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Neredbojias
He who laughs last sounds like an idiot.
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