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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It is a lot of change. One of my first jobs after the Navy was working with Maxtor and Seagate. Somewhere I still have a 5MB 5.25” full-size winchester drive. 5MB!


24 posted on 01/22/2024 10:36:49 PM PST by Reno89519 (It's war. No one murders and takes Americans hostage. Time to act. Declare war on Islamic Hamas.)
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To: Reno89519

Cool! I went to a talk at IBM Almaden Valley a long time ago (around 1982) about the history of the IBM 305 RAMAC — the first disk drive. It was a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the tech.

My wife bought me a SuperMac “DataFrame” 20 MB Hard Disk for our Macintosh Plus. It was the first hard disk drive to take advantage of the SCSI port on the Macintosh Plus. She paid $600 for it at the time (almost $1,700 today!). What a sweet present! That was back in the Dual Income, No Kids days. Shortly after that our first was born and that was the end of expensive toys.


26 posted on 01/22/2024 11:11:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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