Holy crap! $20,000 for 300Mb of HDD!?
No kidding.
And that was back when $20,000 was a LOT of money.
(A brand new 1979 Z/28 Camaro could be had for between $6500-8000).
System Industries was the first place I interviewed with when I was looking to relocate to the “Sand Box,” i.e., Silicon Valley in 1982. I wound up working for a competitor of theirs called “Data Systems Designs.” The real point of the post though is that back then a Moderate GOP member of the house was elected from the Bay Area (the mind boggles at the concept.) His name was Ed Zschau and he founded Systems Industries.
That was cheap verses a few years before...