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,...
:’) 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... ;’)
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.
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.