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> Alain<aze### [at] qwerty org> wrote:
>> I remember when having 48K of RAM was huge. I also remember an ad for a
>> 5Mb hard drive for $5000. It's size: 18.5" x 8" x 4.25". It had it's own
>> power supply.
>
> I don't remember it, but I have been told that such hard drives used to
> be the size of a fridge at some point. (And probably more expensive than
> a car.)
>
That one was one of the very first ordinary consumer hard drives available.
It was colour and style matched for the Apple ][. It was made to stand
on top of the Apple ][ case. Same width and hight. The other dimention
matched the depth of the cover.
The ad put "More storage than you could ever use"... I have many
individual files that just wont fit on that one.
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On 7/12/2011 17:23, Alain wrote:
> I have many individual files that just wont fit on that one.
I remember when Myst came out on CD, I thought "Well, there's the end of
pirated games. Where would you possibly put so much data?"
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> When the high school finally replaced the old NCR-50 mainframe (such as it
> was) with a PR1ME, the disk drive was in a cabinet literally as big as a
> fridge. However, if you opened it up, the cabinet was empty but for some
> wiring and a disk drive maybe 10cm high. The head of the department couldn't
> stop laughing for about 20 minutes.
Maybe back then it was a questio of vendors thinking that customers would
think "if it isn't (physically) big, it can't be good".
--
- Warp
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On 13/07/2011 01:23 AM, Alain wrote:
> That one was one of the very first ordinary consumer hard drives available.
> It was colour and style matched for the Apple ][. It was made to stand
> on top of the Apple ][ case. Same width and hight. The other dimention
> matched the depth of the cover.
>
> The ad put "More storage than you could ever use"... I have many
> individual files that just wont fit on that one.
It probably *is* more storage than you could ever use... WITH AN APPLE
][! ;-)
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On 7/12/2011 23:47, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> When the high school finally replaced the old NCR-50 mainframe (such as it
>> was) with a PR1ME, the disk drive was in a cabinet literally as big as a
>> fridge. However, if you opened it up, the cabinet was empty but for some
>> wiring and a disk drive maybe 10cm high. The head of the department couldn't
>> stop laughing for about 20 minutes.
>
> Maybe back then it was a questio of vendors thinking that customers would
> think "if it isn't (physically) big, it can't be good".
Yeah, we weren't sure what it was. There were wires running from the box to
lights at various places on the front panel, so it wasn't like we had an
entire rack with one U filled or something like that. I suspect it was
indeed the marketing department. I suspect you could have put four drives
in and wasted about half the space with wires running to lights far from the
drives, tho.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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