pvadbx;145814 Wrote: > > speaking of cost for technology, in a past life, I bought 300 megabyte > (not gigabyte) hard drives for the college I was working for. they > were the size of washing machines, and cost (if memory serves) about > $17,500 each.
When I was at HP in 83 and 84, we affectionately called our 404MB drives "dishwashers", as they looked almost *exactly* like one, replete with front-panel controls and door-locking mechanism for the top-load disk pack. They too required 220V power, weighed a ton, and used a removable pack that looked like a stack of dinner plates in keeping with the kitchen motif. It even sounded like a dishwasher and practically shook itself off the floor when doing heavy I/O. These drives were the ones used in the data center that got shot up in one of the "Die Hard" movies. It was good to see these things still had a useful life well after the last bit was transferred from them. -- mbonsack ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mbonsack's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1398 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28621 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
