Were those pizza sized discs a type of hard cartridge
with the name "Nashua" stamped on the side?
And did they have a clean function in which an arm
came out over the installed disc with the words
"turn slowly" stamped on the arm?
Hehehe my dad used to have an old Century 2100
something or other, might not be the right name,
I think it was an "NCR" type of system.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I remember when a 10MB hard drive was the size of pizza, fit into a
>refridgerator-sized beast ofa cabinet, and PCs had 8 & 1/2 inch floppy diskettes!
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback
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>
> > On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj:
> > > > From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993
> > > >
> > > > Pg. 140; pgph 5:
> > > >
> > > > "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and
> > > > gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable
> > > > of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
> > > > $2,500.
> > > >
> > > > Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I remember when a 20 MB drive was top of the line and cost more than
> > > the rest of the machine :)
> > >
> > Yeah...I had an IBM PS/2 model 25 (built-in monitor) and I
> > thought "wow! A whole 25 meg hard drive! What am I going to
> > do with all that space!?!?!?!" :-) Boy, how times have
> > changed. :-) I've now got about 40 GIGS in my linux box and
> > I'm concerned about running low on storage space for all my
> > MP3's. :-)
> > John
> >
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