[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I still remember the first IBM Winchester Drive.

It was not small.

Earlier thread ....:

300TB hard drive to arrive by 2010 ~ Seagate...

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Last weekend Fry's was running a sale on 1 Terabyte Seagate SATA Drives for $199....Had been built apparently for the Canadian market,...

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Of course, the total storage capacity of the Seagate drives sold in the past year probably exceeds the capacity of the first 500 million drives. :’) Thanks E. One of those “AT ROM” type topics... ;’)

[Marine_Uncle]

Seagate sure has done well over the years. I remember a few in the PolyCell ASIC design group I worked with at Bell Labs Allentown working on a chip set for some of their drives, back in the 80s.

[dirtboy]

I still remember the first IBM Winchester Drive. It was not small.

You must have a computer dinosaur ping list.

I worked with multiuser CPM machines before the IBM PC came out.

They had a master/slave config with a 10 MEG Winchester drive that was about the size of a loaf of bread.

And we wrote an order entry/inventory control system for auto parts dealers that ran off that 10 meg drive. And it had an 8-inch floppy for backups.