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The last hard disc I bought was 45gb and cost 180 quid.

I've just got a parcel from Amazon containing 1Tb for 120 quid.
Amazing.

Now, need more porn.

 

for a short time in the early 90s I co-ran a little mail-order
business selling hard drives for the Amiga home computer - our top
seller was a 120Mb drive for around 200 quid.

 

I didn't get a hard disk for my first computer, a BBC-B in 1982 or 1983.
There was one available, but 5MB cost around 800 pounds.

 

My first floppy drive (5.25") for an Atari ST cost me 300 quid back in 1980
summat and that was cheap. It was only half a meg too.



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You sure it wasn't 360k? You should have lived in Hong Kong for cheap
stuff like that, back then.

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Come to think, it could well have been. The big ones were only 720k weren't
they?

I know it was a "bargain" at the time but shortly after I got a 120 gig
Winchester hard drive for about 200 quid. A good drive 'til it died without
warning.


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I bought a dual Micropolis 5-1/4" drive (315 kB hard-sectored IIRC)
with S-100 controller for $AUS2,000 duty-free in 1979, to "export" to
Antarctica. The S-100 expansion chassis for the Exidy Sorcerer was $400
and I think the Sorcerer itself was $1250. My first hard-drive was for
my Corona PC-clone in Vancouver in 1984 -- $CDN2,000 for 20 MB. Blimey,
we've come a long way!

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So that'd be what, 3/6' in real money?

Indeed, the hard drives in those days lasted more than 5 minutes.


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Can't remember when the Aussibuck collapsed against Sterling.
At a guess that was £400-500.

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That'd be about what the first floppy I bought would've cost retail. Silly
money anyway.


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Christ, you've got to watch your Megas and Gigas. Otherwise you'd
bought a Winchester that a) was brought back from the future (say
2005-ish) or it fell of the back of a lorry.

Mind you, falling of the back of a lorry would have helped release the
heads.

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Isn't it amazing how quickly we (I) forget:

That's what happened to my 120 MEG (Note, I didn't forget this time) drive.
It just siezed solid wiv no warning.

Now though, it WOULD be a 120 gig drive that goes tits up and takes all the
associated files they hold.


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Funnily enough, which is worse? Losing 120MB of info in the early '80s
or 120MB in 2005?

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I bought a GVP series II for my Amiga in the early 90s. 80MB of Quantum
goodness for something like 380 quid. I can only assume you're talking
about some Duplo IDE thing for a 600/1200.

 

*ding*(ish)

We bought 2.5" form factor drives and made up custom cables to allow
them to be fitted internally to the A1200 (never bothered with the
600). I can't remember how many we sold, but it was only in the order
of dozens rather than hundreds - it was more of a hobby than a
business.

 

The 80's before bloatware robbed us of anything but a marginally decent
amount of storage space, no matter how big the drive.


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