In <Pine.BSO.4.58.0603281701150.20057@penn.dgoldman.com>, on 03/28/06
at 05:03 PM, David Goldman <David@dgoldman.com> typed:
>The first personal hard drive I ever had hands-on experience with was for
>(gasp!) a TRS-80 Model I about 24 years ago. 5MB for only $5000.
>Woohoo!!!
>I guess hard drive prices have come down a little since then. ;-)
Even by when I bought my first 2 seagates - 10 MB and then a 20 MB for PC
XT machines.
The 20 MB drive eventually succumbed to 'stiction' - wouldn't start
spinning but I was able to get it going by nudging the spindle underneath.
Got a lot of grief from coworkers about having a hard drive that needed a
rope start:-(
But the happy moment with the XT was when the power supply died and I was
able to replace it with a PC Power and Cooling Silencer - what a
difference!
-- Julian Thomas: jt_at_jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State! Warpstock X - October 12-15 2006; Windsor, Ont. I'll be there - will you? -- -- As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpadReceived on Tue Mar 28 20:12:59 2006
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