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[Phil Spelt]

In 1983, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow for about $500, 
and wondered how I would EVER fill up the 5 MB!!!  'Course, we can do 
a LOTmore these days, such as Call Of Duty, etc, etc. lol...

At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:
>Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB, and cost $450. Storage and RAM are 
>crazy cheap these days. Consider that the software used to control 
>the Command Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K of memory. 2 
>blocks of ROM (24k and 32k each) and 1 block of RAM (4k).
>
>Doug
>
>
>
>---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote:
> > A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one
> > terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I
> > told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.
> >
> > Ron VP
> >
> > On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:
> >
> > > Core memory, I bet!
> > >
> > > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when
> > > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital
> > > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp
> > > center.  A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked
> > > him something about the memory modules.  He didn't know the answer,
> > > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one
> > > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!!  And
> > > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...
> > >
> > >
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