WOW 10Mb Hard Drive $3398.00

[goingbush]

Wow , puts modern electronics into perspective . Memory is so cheap now.

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[Tombie]

I had a first gen CD writer SCSI Bus
First gen DVD burner
DAT drive
Zip drive

Insane prices back then.

[travelrover]

I was working on IBM 370/135 mainframes in the mid/late 70’s and one K of memory was around USD$2k back then.


IBM System/370 Model 135 - Wikipedia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370_Model_135)

Arrrr the good ol’days!!

Cheers - Simon

[Milton477]

Scary how cheap tech has got relative to other things.
We bought our first home in 1988 & in the same year bought a PC + 3 axis A4 plotter for the business. The PC + plotter cost a quarter of the price of the house.

[Saitch]

Memory might be cheap these days but, at my age, it's not easy!

[Graeme]

My intro to computers in Feb '70 was on a near-new 16K byte IBM 360/30 which was later expanded to 32K. I still recall seeing the 2 wires that passed through each ferrite core (1 bit) to write and read its polarity, representing 0 or 1.

Edit: The memory isn't working too well - my intro to computers was in 1969 using a hand punch to produce cards to program the uni's computer in Fortran but I have no memory of what computer that was.

[Ferret]

Still have my operating manual for an ICL 1904A mainframe. 96K of core running the George 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEORGE_(operating_system)) (GEneral ORGanisational Environment) OS, a 24 bit operating system. $450k at installation in Dec 1970 + $150k of peripherals.

Undergraduate jobs (Fortran IV on punched cards) were restricted to use 18K only. If you were really organised you could squeeze in maybe 2 compilations of your code per day. Debugging syntax and logic errors therefore usually took days before you got something that would execute correctly.

[Graeme]

That brings back memories starting to convert from IBM's 16 bit to ICL 1900's 24 bit 6 years later but avoided when I changed jobs to work closer to my new abode.

[JDNSW]

When I was working for one of Australia's largest companies in the mid seventies, we needed more memory in our division's only computer. I can't remember the dollar amount, but I do remember that an additional 256k of memory was so expensive it had to go to the company board.

[Hall]

Some tech is cheap now and others are not so. For what you get though it is cheap enough. The latest NVIDIA gpu is a little over $5,000 or for those that think that is cheap enough there is another for about $10,000. That one is aimed more towards work stations.
Cheers Hall

[JDNSW]

What you need to realise is that this $10,000 GPU has similar capability to a multi-million dollar supercomputer from the same era as the disc drive pictured above.