Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

The DU Lounge

Jarqui

(10,873 posts)

5. In the late 70s

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Thu Sep 14, 2017, 10:32 AM

Sep 2017

a disk like that (maybe up to 100MB) or 64K (note the K - not MB or GB) RAM for example cost $80,000-$200,000 roughly.

You had to be careful how many lines of code you sent to the processor, take that result and send a bunch more lines of code with for another result.

Times have certainly changed.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

30 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

10 MB hard disk from the 1960s [View all] Tanuki Sep 2017 OP

This where we store grandma's recipe for green bean casserole underpants Sep 2017 #1

A previous generation storage unit lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #2

What is that? lunamagica Sep 2017 #13

That would be a drum storage unit lapfog_1 Sep 2017 #14

Wow, I had no idea. That was one complex piece of machinery. It must have weighted a ton to cause lunamagica Sep 2017 #15

That's a heckuva hard drive crash. n/t MrModerate Sep 2017 #19

wow talk about not backing up your data lol steve2470 Sep 2017 #22

Still have working ones that size with only 2MB unc70 Sep 2017 #3

Happy 61st birthday, yesterday, the moving-head hard disk drive. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #4

In the late 70s Jarqui Sep 2017 #5

I remember those well. Dale Neiburg Sep 2017 #6

Flash drives hibbing Sep 2017 #7

And now.. Benny19851 Sep 2017 #8

1986 / 1987 Tandy computer keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #9

I still have my commodore 64 tymorial Sep 2017 #27

1989 keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #10

My first job in the computer industry was for a place... hunter Sep 2017 #11

I didn't know they had 10 MB discs back then LeftInTX Sep 2017 #12

Inflation is out of control. A megabyte went so much further back then ! nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #16

IBM 5MB hard drive being loaded on an airplane 1956. Angleae Sep 2017 #17

I showed a much younger co-worker this picture once.... lastlib Sep 2017 #20

It might be the same as this one. 5MB, 1956. Dave Starsky Sep 2017 #21

Odd. There's no car in that picture newer than the mid- to late-1940s, AFAICT. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #29

I was still babysitting these . . . MrModerate Sep 2017 #18

I do, but never used it nt steve2470 Sep 2017 #24

so ironic that in 1978, I hated computers so much I vowed never to take another class in it..... steve2470 Sep 2017 #23

1978 cutting-edge computer from Radio Shack steve2470 Sep 2017 #25

I have a couple of hard drives from the early 90s tymorial Sep 2017 #26

In the mid 80's i had a temp postion at one of Digital Equipments disk drive devopment facilites CentralMass Sep 2017 #28

More stolen items from King Tut's tomb, I see........ n/t DFW Sep 2017 #30