[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Thompson Freeman]

I wanted to purchase a hard disk for my H89 CP/M machine way way back 
when. Wasn't sure what I should do with that much storage ( either 5 or 
10 MegB), so being unemployed at the time, I didn't purchase it.

First hard drive went in a H150, 20MB.  I had people questioning me 
about that much storage (including my wife).

On 12/09/2007 10:03:40 PM, List wrote:
> Here's IBM's page on the device which includes a pretty good picture
> of 
> the head assembly:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
> 
> Perhaps more startling is to think that the first available hard 
> disks
> 
> for PC usage were 10MB.  I had a dual unit, from TallGrass
> Technologies 
> (amazingly, they are still in business), and let me tell you, having 
> 20MB of storage on a single little PC was the cat's ass.  We really
> did 
> not know what to do with that much storage.  We had mini-computers 
> running whole medium sized businesses with a single 9.6MB hard drive.
> 
> Can't hardly load a browser in that much storage these days...
> 
> Robert Reese wrote:
> > Hmmm.... just a little something to make you appreciate that 512MB
> usb thumbdrive you get for Christmas a little more (help cover up 
> that
> groan).
> >
> > http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/storage.asp
> >
> > ;c)
> >
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