10MB HD for only $3398!!!!

[Radical Edward]

Made me giggle. : http://www.informationtechnologyscho...our-processor/

[MJ5150]

Awesome. I remember building a computer in 1993 that had a 420MB HDD in it. I had no idea what I was going to do with all that storage space.

-Mike

[MadMan118]

Wow there's some serious throwback in here...16k RAM, WHOO WERE COOKIN!

[Demon_Hunter]

Atari 2600!!! YES!!!

I remember playing pitfall way back in like 5th grade with fellow TBer Mike Costelow

[UnsungZeros]

Made me think of this recent xkcd:

[Munjibunga]

My company paid $4,000 for a 10MB hard drive in the early '80s. At that price per byte, one of my 1TB hard drives would cost $400 million.

[Horny Toad]

Wow, that brought back some memories. I had a Tandy 1000SX and a Sinclair ZX81. With the Sinclair 16K expansion pack, I was stylin'!

[Phil Smith]

These are a little more reasonably priced:

[jwbassman]

LOL!

I had this one when I was a kid.



We had it hooked up to the TV in the living room!

[MJ5150]

The TRS-80 ad is funny....."put a computer in your life".

-Mike

[smperry]

These ads are great! Good find.

[jady]

My first computer, yes that is a cassette deck......

[hbarcat]

Yes, that is Isaac Asimov pimping Radio Shack computers.

[Radical Edward]

Stumbleupon. That is the answer to boredom. And the source of this find. Wahaha.

[Philbiker]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

My company paid $4,000 for a 10MB hard drive in the early '80s. At that price per byte, one of my 1TB hard drives would cost $400 million.

I LOLed.

I just remember the old mainframe disc packs that were the size of a small microwave oven each. Switching those things out in my days as a computer operator was nervous stuff. I wonder how my DVD-RAM drive would compare.

[burk48237]

This one is great, it reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Bart learned the facts of life from his dads old stash of Playboys with all the photos cut out. All it needs is James Caan, a hot tub, and some Miles Davis to be totally groovy.

[lowendfriend]

I'm old enough that I remember computer drum memory....it preceeded hard disks. It had a washing machine motor that spun the cylinder around. I think it was like 1 MB and weighed about 150 lbs.

[Philbiker]

The Tandy 100SX near the end of that post was my first computer. I had the single floppy version with upgraded 640K of RAM and the whopping internal 20MB hard drive "card".



It was so much better than a PC because the Tandy graphics were 16 colors, and most of the good video games back then were set up to use the Tandy graphics as an option.

lowendfriend, I was an operator on a supermini in the late 80s. I cycled not only disc packs, but more often the big tapes you see in the old movies. And I cleaned the heads and tape mechanisms nightly. One of the coolest things ever was the gigantic room-filling Gerber Scientific Photo-Plotter we had. It could plot a map on film stock up to something like 8ft by 10 ft.

[beelzelboss]

See, we should do everything that big nowadays. Think how much hard drive space we would have in those big computers!

[Jefenator]

Heh... I remember most of this stuff when it came out. (I guess that makes me old.)

Makes you wonder what computers will be like, a quarter century from now that will make my iMac seem like some primitive adding machine.