craigb Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I grew up in San Diego and a friend worked for this company. I remember laughing at this ad because who the heck needs 10 MB of storage anyway??? I waited until the price came down to $910 and bought one... *Sigh...* ? 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 10MB? That's insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Yep...in my IBM "XT" days, that was a huge hard drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I remember buying a 30 meg drive for Atari ST in the late 1980s for $500 as a major deal and thought I’d never be able to fill that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zo Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 My songs used to be on 4 mb disk on my akai s950 !! now it's not even my kick lol 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sprouse Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Craig why are you avoiding me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 49 minutes ago, David Sprouse said: Craig why are you avoiding me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I tossed out some old computer magazines last year. I kept them for the heck of it because I liked to look and see what the prices were. We really have come a long way and we still will find a reason to complain ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawajava Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Greg said: I remember buying a 30 meg drive for Atari ST in the late 1980s for $500 as a major deal and thought I’d never be able to fill that. I tell folks about my buying a 20 MB hard disk for a screaming deal at $1500 - which it was - in earlier times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Whoa! Just stumbled on this! Original ADVENTURE game on 8" floppy for "only" $599.99! I should still have a couple 8" floppies saved in storage for kicks. Heck, one may actually have the original ADVENTURE game since I helped port it to the HP (from Unix) back in 1978! "A hollow voice says 'PLUGH!'" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bapu Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I remember playing ADVENTURE on the HP3000 Series III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Shelby Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I still remember making punch cards to play Oregon Trail on the School Mainframe...LOL 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwise Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 My first PC based on Intel 486 CPU had two HDDs - 200MB and 400MB. It couldn't play back mp3 files, but other than that it was a monster, running the latest Windows 98. I still have boxes of floppies with data created on that machine, but no floppy drive to read them. I've upgraded my PCs only 5 times since then. That's not a lot, considering the time span. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Bapu said: I remember playing ADVENTURE on the HP3000 Series III. Small world! So you were running my code! (Me and a guy named Lance who I worked with on this.) ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie Foster Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 I still have my old 8088 around. It has 2 - yes 2! 20 mb hard drives and 2 floppy drives. I was SET! I have no idea if it still works. I should probably try to set it up and turn it on. It got me through college, so I was happy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PavlovsCat Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 13 minutes ago, Lizzie Foster said: I still have my old 8088 around. It has 2 - yes 2! 20 mb hard drives and 2 floppy drives. I was SET! I have no idea if it still works. I should probably try to set it up and turn it on. It got me through college, so I was happy. I still have one of my two Atari ST music computers somewhere in my crawl space. Yeah, I think it's time to let that go. I haven't turned that on since the early 90s! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie Foster Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 Just now, PavlovsCat said: I still have one of my two Atari ST music computers somewhere in my crawl space. Yeah, I think it's time to let that go. I haven't turned that on since the early 90s! I'd need to take the drives out and make them unusable first. I really miss that degausser at the radio station I used to work at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigb Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 8 minutes ago, Lizzie Foster said: I'd need to take the drives out and make them unusable first. I really miss that degausser at the radio station I used to work at. Was the degausser electric or one of those large magnets with a big metal grip? Heh, side-note, my friend likes to use old hard drive magnets like most people use fridge magnets. The huge difference is the power! You can actually use them on standard drywall walls because they'll stick to the screw heads that are buried (they make for a cheap stud finder too!). If you use them on your fridge, they can be quite difficult to get off! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie Foster Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 6 minutes ago, craigb said: Was the degausser electric or one of those large magnets with a big metal grip? Heh, side-note, my friend likes to use old hard drive magnets like most people use fridge magnets. The huge difference is the power! You can actually use them on standard drywall walls because they'll stick to the screw heads that are buried (they make for a cheap stud finder too!). If you use them on your fridge, they can be quite difficult to get off! it was an electric one. Not very big. We used it to clean the big reel to reel tapes that we played programming with. It was an am station that did talk before switching to sports. The talk shows were all recorded and replayed at night. They also used it to clean the 4-tracks we used for commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telecode 101 Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 4 hours ago, InstrEd said: I tossed out some old computer magazines last year. I kept them for the heck of it because I liked to look and see what the prices were. We really have come a long way and we still will find a reason to complain ? I still have my old invoice for the first desktop computer I ever bought. I keep it for nostalgia sake and also as a milestone in my life. pointless useless history below -- there used to be a media mogul up here in Canada named Ted Rogers. He was a big believer in the future and the Internet. I used for work for his corporation back in the early 90s. He implemented this thing at one point for employees where you could get an interest free loan from the company to buy yourself a desktop computer and pay it back over a 12 month period. You could only use it once for your first PC. I took advantage of it. I believe it cost $1500. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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