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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:41:34 +0100 >> Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello Rob, >> >>> (/me thinks back to when I paid £150 for a 1GB drive and that >>> was including a staff discount!). >> >> Don't know you're born! My first HD was 52MB (yes, MEGAbytes) and cost >> £350. >> >> Cue "Four Yorkshiremen" ..... :-) > > And this Scotsman's first personal hard drive was 5MB for use on an > Apple ][ .. It looked like about 40 Apple floppys... I don't recall > what I paid for it - probably something stupidly expensive. > > Although just prior to that, I looked after a PDP11/40 running Unix v6 > which had a 3MB fixed disk and 1.5MB removables. These were RK 11 disk > packs... Huge - Seemed like the best part of 2' diameter. Now that was > a computer :) I remember them well - weighed a bit too! And I can still load a tape with my eyes shut! I also remember buying my first < £1 a megabyte drive for £1400 for 1.6Gig that was too big to fit inside my pc and lived happily on top for several years Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html