On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Anton Graham 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 :)
I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern moterhboards.
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