On Monday 05 December 2005 00:09, Richard Smoot wrote:
> On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:09, steve szmidt wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 December 2005 22:56, Steven Buehler wrote:
> > > Ah, you remind me of when I was trying to get a 10 MB hard disk for my
> > > old IBM PS/2 x286 system. RLL interface, $600.
> >
> > Oh, you were spoiled. 286! Ooo!
> >
> > We can see who had the smallest capacity drives. My 1st one only had 5MB.
> > It had a Massive motor. Probably 6 inch in diameter and a foot long. The
> > disk was something like 14 inches. Now there's a REAL disk! Haha!
>
> My first computer total system cost in 1965 about a billion dollars-
> SAC 's first real time Command and Control System had the War Plans in
> a cabinet of 36 inch hard disks. That was pre Unix. Octal coded machine
> language 32 bit system programmed with IBM punch cards. We used an
> IBM 360 to feed the programs into our Data Processing Central Machine.
> I think each disk had around the capacity of a modern floppy disk.
Of course I kept the profit when I sold mine, since I paid for it out of my
own pocket. Not that I could afford yours... : )
--Steve Szmidt
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