Heh, a Priam hard drive! I think I used to have a Priam in my old 386SX. Whatever it was, it went out in a blaze of glory one day, causing me to lose all my QBasic stuff. :P
Yeah, Our first "minicomputer" we purchased for our business back in 1984 that was about the size of a desk used an 84MB Fujitsu hard drive. I recently found the itemized receipt for the system and that hard drive alone was $1,995! WITHOUT the hard drive controller which was a 15" x 15" board that was an additional $1,200!! LOL!
I saw those listed over there, but I don't know which episode this is from. The world is always slobbering for more hot vintage hard drive action, so I posted the money shots as a public service.
@RealityMonitor It might have only been 5mb. I remember buying one of these for a client and IIRC a 5mb drive was something like $3500 in 1986, but it sure beat the speed and capacity of 8" floppies.
Heh, a Priam hard drive! I think I used to have a Priam in my old 386SX. Whatever it was, it went out in a blaze of glory one day, causing me to lose all my QBasic stuff. :P
Eep386 1 week ago
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Eep386 1 week ago
Wow! 1 kb hdd! :D
BadOeynhausenLP 1 month ago
how much is its capacity? please answer....
volikoto 2 months ago
@volikoto
i'm guessing maybe 40 megabytes-100 megabytes
taledarkside 1 month ago
Imagine that hard drive today! about 10tb of space :)
MrTpengineer 2 months ago
i took an old drive apart from an old server. it wieghed about 250 pounds and bigger than a microwave...
shoprat17 5 months ago
I have 40 disc like that inside mi mini HDD Verbatim...
isaac11clarke84 5 months ago
i own that calculator watch, best $75 i've spent
lolpie24 5 months ago
That's really funny that it's called the Winchester drive. Really historical sounding.
amorasaki 6 months ago
betcha its built a hell of a lot better than modern drives.
GiggleHz 6 months ago
@GiggleHz no it's not. don't be ridiculous. Modern drives have a much smaller failure rate and a larger lifetime.
denis1110 3 months ago
@denis1110 sorry for being ridiculous.
GiggleHz 3 months ago
They need to get this show back on the air and maybe have modern PC's. I miss watching this.
coondogtheman1234 6 months ago
0:47 a very shiny watch. WOW. ITS DIGITAL 8D
CSpannerz 8 months ago 3
source: archive dot org/details/HardDisk1985
MrAnonymousPoster 11 months ago
20+ years later there would be servers with 40 hard drives 500x faster than this :D
neonzion7 1 year ago
put 2 of those in raid! :D probably faster than an ssd :D
neonzion7 1 year ago
Yeah, Our first "minicomputer" we purchased for our business back in 1984 that was about the size of a desk used an 84MB Fujitsu hard drive. I recently found the itemized receipt for the system and that hard drive alone was $1,995! WITHOUT the hard drive controller which was a 15" x 15" board that was an additional $1,200!! LOL!
enumrob 1 year ago 2
I would love to see more video clips like this one! =) Thanks for sharing!
LellePrinter82 1 year ago 5
@LellePrinter82
Archive org has 562 of the complete shows for free download.
TYPE into URL FIELD:
tinyurl DOT com/bpagu
peetoons 1 year ago
@peetoons
Thank you! =)
LellePrinter82 1 year ago
@sygo7g
I saw those listed over there, but I don't know which episode this is from. The world is always slobbering for more hot vintage hard drive action, so I posted the money shots as a public service.
peetoons 1 year ago
Best part? The whole thing probably held about 10 meg of data and cost thousands (not even factoring inflation into it!)
RealityMonitor 1 year ago
Fabulous vintage hardware pr0n, Frank!
@RealityMonitor It might have only been 5mb. I remember buying one of these for a client and IIRC a 5mb drive was something like $3500 in 1986, but it sure beat the speed and capacity of 8" floppies.
reedyd 1 year ago