[SkyDancer]

And way back when, my grandad paid five hundred dollars for a 500MB hard drive for the computer he was assembling. And before that, I've seen some old ads for hard drives

[Roses0508]

I remember when a 750 megabyte hard drive was of such note, people from other departments were coming by to admire it. It took 48 hours to format and weighed about 10 pounds.

[roadcat]

And before that, I've seen some old ads for hard drives

Yeah, that's an old ad (early 1980s?)! Back in 1985 (I think), I bought a 20-Megabyte HD for $400. My boss was pissed off at me, yelling that he paid $500 for his 5-Megabyte HD not long before my purchase. These HDs were huge compared to the floppies we were using. The 5-1/4 floppies went from about 80KB in half a decade later to 1.4MB, puny compared to a HD at 20MB. I think a 100MB HD was about $1000 at the time. I still have a couple 5MB HDs (1982) sitting in my vintage collection, they have a large footprint.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL....

Memories!

[ADemocratNoMore]

In today’s money that $2,500 would be equivalent to around $5,500.

[PLMerite]

I don’t got back that far, but I definitely remember when HD memory broke the $1/megabyte barrier.

And I recently bought a 5TB external drive for $129. And I can fill it up, too.