Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?

Some more useless babble:

As a kid, I grew up (in my weaning years in High School - early '80's)
with a TRS-80 Model 4 - with no hard drive and a daisy wheel printer
that weighed a ton! (I had already started to use a TRS-80 Model I with
a cassette tape drive at school in Jr. High - 1981). Our Model 4 came
with the large capacity floppy drives (I believe 360K) and 64Kb of RAM
which was much better than the Model I and III we had at school! This
setup set my family back over $4,000! With no hard drive, we had to
switch those floppies in and out like mad. My next step was at college
(1986) with my AT&T 6300 ($2000). That one came with a whopping 640Kb
and full 640Kb floppies - but still no hard drive! Though there wasn't
as much switching of floppy disks, it was beginning to get real
annoying. It wasn't until after I got married (1989) that I finally
bought my AT&T 6386SX with my first 3.5 inch floppy disk drive an
aftermarket 5.25" floppy and a 40 Mb hard disk (about $2,000)! A few
years later that went up to a 340Mb hard disk at a whopping cost of $350
(at the $1 per Meg barrier)! I remember right after that - of course -
the price plummeted!

Somebody stop me!

-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]
On Behalf Of Frank K-F
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:36 PM
To: David Goldman
Cc: Thinkpad mailing list
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?

Yes, David, the good old days .. TRS-80 and such. My HP PortablePLUS, a

ROM-RAM box with two expansion slots (64 pin predecessor of PCMCIA) ...

I got a gigantic 2MB SRAM 'disk' for a mere $2900 .. in 1988 .. but
managed a database with 11000 addresses plus Lotus123 etc., under DOS2.2

on an 8086-8Mhz chip upgrade that cost me an additional 400. And those
were real dollars, before Jimmy Carter.

Frank KF

David Goldman wrote:

>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. ;-)
>
>
>

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