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- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+270*Actual formatted capacity 9.88 MB
- murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+148and people will laugh at us for *only* having like a 160 GB harddrive
"160 GIGAbytes? only a n00b has anything below 160 terabytes" - reflex768, on 10/10/2007, -3/+100Great stuff. I remember thinking 10MBs was pure overkill too.
- maheshee11, on 10/10/2007, -3/+87Year: 1980
- revmitcz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+68Well then I imagine this 5MB hard drive from 1956, weighing over a ton, probably cost a lot more than this 10MB drive.
http://musicplustv.com/stash/2007/15/19461_074.jpg
I have no idea as to the price, but if you needed a jet liner to move it around - that's gonna be some serious bread. - Kinjiru, on 10/10/2007, -11/+68I actually had one of those with a custom hacked setup I built to use it on my C64 wayyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day!
- neffy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+57That's the refurb price. Wicked.
- PueSi, on 10/10/2007, -3/+54Isn't 160GB small nowadays?
- 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -9/+59But pr0nmovies were only 3KB back in the day, so it all worked out
- chopenik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+48I wonder what the transfer rate is on that bad boy.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+41Those 120 kbytes are worth $41.94 of the total purchase price (1.2% of $3,495).. I'd really feel ripped off.
- varunb007, on 10/10/2007, -0/+40we've come a long way since then... you would be laughed at if you carried around a flash drive on your key chain with only 10 mb.
- mvanhorn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38I checked the number to see if they were still in business so they could see the awesomeness of this ad.. not so much
- RapeApe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37I'm still laughing at myself for only having 4GBs back a while ago.
- JoshuaH, on 10/10/2007, -0/+37Or, Porn addict.
- nreynolds, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36what?
- WaxyBreath, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36The most painful thing about price is that it's refurbished
- Wailord, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34Memorex has 32MB flash drive for $5 by the register at Target now...
- klecu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29That was just the disk - no controller. Read the fine print: controller was like $1500.
- knute5, on 10/10/2007, -1/+30And today $3500 will get you 10TB. Guess we'll look back at that 20 years from now with the same response.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+292 weeks.
- Amablue, on 10/10/2007, -4/+32;D|-<
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=O-|- - 2shae, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30he's high...let him be
- TLAKABM, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Why don't you just take a whole PC back?
- 9a3eedi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26That's just a couple of bytes. Imagine how far you can go with compression! :D
- Audacitor, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29I sometimes like to think about what it would be like if I could grab this nice 3x51 inch 120GB external drive a take it with back to the '80s, just to watch the jaws drop at the effects of Moore's Law.
'O course, how would I prove it's got 120GB? No FireWire back then... - ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25well that goes unsaid... he's posting on digg.
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -1/+25Wow, even that is a rip off when you can get 1GB for under $10 AUD.
- ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23With videos with a higher resolution than real life.
/Futurama - acontorer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22Title is very inaccurate. For example, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_IBM_disk_storage we see that "The IBM 1301 Disk Storage Unit was announced on June 2, 1961. It was designed for use with the IBM 7000 series mainframe computers and the IBM 1410. The 1301 stored 28 million characters on a single module .... The 1301 Model 1 had one module....could be purchased for $115,500."
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21i still have a 4gig hard drive in use... of course its a win98 box 400mhz with 64mb ram lol.
and i remember that being fast... :-/ - Megatog615, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21NSFW!111
- tugger, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22I paid $270 for 256k of video ram one time, and that was after shopping around!
I considered $280 for a 300 bit us robotics modem, but did'nt go for it. - ThinkBox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20Are you an editor? or a pirate? or both?
- highjumpman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19Now imagine we had time travel and could sell that 300GB hard drive for a whopping $104,850,000...
- MBHoy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20That image alone would fill 0.3% of your hard drive. The cache of the digg home page, and then this comment page would bring it up to around 0.6%. It would only take a couple more clicks, dependant on where you went, to fill a good 1% of your hard drive, purely in a minute of browser cache.
- McTendo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Sucks to be you, then.
- danklogix, on 11/15/2007, -1/+17Funny thing, I used to live on that street. Not too far from there.
- memorybit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Yes, this is definitely not the most expensive 10 megs in history. I too recall seeing an invoice for a 10 meg hard drive that was part of an IBM Series 1 with a price tag in excess of $10,000 and was the size of a good size laser printer. The disks were the size of LP's and I think there were 10 of them but I could be incorrect. It was a long time ago. Of course I love the stories of the true old-timers when they talk of hand-wrapping core, er, I mean RAM for you youngsters. Hand-wrapping core refers to literally wrapping copper around porcelen to create a single bit. ahhh, yes... those were the days.
- Battlecry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17I still have one of these out in my garage. I bought it from the Salvation Army for $10 10 years ago.
- scooterk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Still, this thing beat the hell out of storing programs on rolls of paper tape.
- bilbravo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14I don't think Wailord was saying 32mb for $5 was a good deal, just that it is 3 times larger and a fraction of the price. I have seen those too, and often wondered what I could use it for... but then I remember I don't have any use for 32 mb.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17I laugh at you and your dinosaur hardware. I brought back a paper thin laptop from the future, no battery required, it can power up eternally from the heat of your body.
- celkin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13specs:
50 Ghz 16-core processor
128 GB RAM
40TB SSD
telepathic mouse and keyboard control
runs Mac OSXII as well as Windows 9.2 and Ubuntu 16.4 Rabid Ringworm via Parallels - rageguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Nope, wake me up when I can have all human knowledge and media on my fingertip.
- Stratochief66, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Well, in 5 years when you are my age you can sit in a forum and listen to youngsters who don't remember computers without the internet, or video game consoles before the N64 or PS1.
- burkay, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11(.) (.)
- cvrse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12forget trying to solder flash drives together, you should learn how to use a camera first
- ChefNick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10What do you mean? It's fine for a picture that old.
"Factory rebuilt 10MB cartridge disk drive only.
A new Cameo Data Systems controller is available for $1,495
$4,495 for a brand new Ampex 10MB drive only." - DrawingTheSun, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Average
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