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05/07/2006

10MB Hard Disk for $3,495

That's right, a 10MB hard disk for only $3,495 back in 1980 -- and it's refurbished to boot. A brand new unit would have cost you $4,495. If adjusted to 2005 dollars, that's $11,415.77 (new)/$8876.11 (refurbished). View the full-sized advertisement here.
And this isn’t one of your 3.5″, half-height 5 1/4″ or even full-height 5 1/4″ hard drives either. No; it’s a hulking, old-school, non-Winchester jobbie that takes interchangeable disk cartridges
(Bjorn - please check "refurbished")

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There are 235 comments about this post (10 pages).

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Posted at 05/07/2006 08:19am by Zenith Mist
The people who bought this when it came out would probably piss themselves now :P
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Posted at 05/07/2006 08:54am by 老张的黑板报 » 10MB 硬盘 - 3495美元
[...] 这不是天方夜谭，这是1980年的硬盘价格。并且在你觉得不可思议的时候，请注意3495美元所买到的并不是全新的10Mb硬盘，而一个翻新货。全新的？4495美元一个。如果换算成2005年的美元，那就分别相当于8876.11美元（翻新）及11415.77美元（全新）。下面是这样的硬盘的一个广告截图： 点击这里看广告全图 并且在当年，这样的一个硬盘体积异常庞大。 消息来源：Techeblog [...]
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Posted at 05/07/2006 11:15am by musictimes
"None will ever need more than 512kb" - sound familiar Mr. Gates?
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Posted at 05/07/2006 11:52am by Ward
Haha! That is amazing. $11k... 10MB HDD is the price of a midsize sedan these days.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 11:56am by Patrick
That is one mad peice of computer hardware. I wish I could get my hands onthat bad boy.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 11:58am by Keith
Only antique collector will be interested in this. This has no resale value at all.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:00pm by Waxi
That was plenty of space before Internt porn.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:16pm by Jason
wow...
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:26pm by Bitperbit - Actualidad y Tecnologia hoy » Un disco duro de 10 MB por $3,495 USD
[...] Vía: Techeblog Por Alan | En: Almacenamiento, Curiosidades [...]
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:31pm by A Welsh View
10MB Hard Disk for $3,495 Back in 1980 a hard drive with a whopping 10MB of storage would set you back a cool $3,495. That's if you wanted the refurbished model. A brand-spanking new one would set you back $4,495. In today's money that
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:32pm by Zach
That's awesome :) Was 10mb the largest available at the time?
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:52pm by meneame.net
10MB por sólo $3495US De vuelta a los 80s, un disco duro de 10MB a sólo $3495US... vía digg (http://digg.com/hardware/10_Megabyte_Hard_Disk_for_$3,495_(Full-Sized_Picture))
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Posted at 05/07/2006 12:58pm by Gran oferta en disco duro… « Sinexion
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Posted at 05/07/2006 1:30pm by baldus
ehehehe... quite exp..
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Posted at 05/07/2006 1:43pm by Wurstkohle » 10MB für 3.495 Dollar gefällig?
[...] Das waren noch Zeiten. Im TechEBlog ist zu lesen, daß es dieses Speicherplatzwunder im Jahre 1980 für 3.495 USD zu erwerben gab. Sie haben sich sogar die Mühe gemacht, das auf einen aktuellen Dollarwert zu bringen: Heute müsste man für diese Platte gute 11.000 Dollar berappen. geek, hardware, werbung [...]
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Posted at 05/07/2006 1:51pm by ok
THAT"S CRIZZAZZZZZYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. WHOAH. SOOoooOOOoooo expensive man. Srumptious though because it's removable.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 1:59pm by Trajan
Holy *expletive*, I'll take 3 please. 0_O
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Posted at 05/07/2006 2:16pm by Mr.boy
You can still pay $3k for an old school disk drive! They are still used for machines whose spefications were made in the 80's and haven't changed even to this day. There is quite a market for "Legacy" devices especially old skool hard drives.
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Posted at 05/07/2006 8:06pm by HyperGadget - Technology Has Come So Far
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Posted at 05/08/2006 00:50am by OhGizmo! » Hard Drives Of Yore
[...] [10MB Hard Disk for $3,495 ] VIA [TechEBlog] Filed under: Technology and Innovation Comments: [...]
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Posted at 05/08/2006 4:32pm by Bjorn Nitmo
Why not give credit to the site you ripped this story from? I'm sure Vintage Computing & Gaming would appreciate the recognition they deserve seeing as they ran the story a full week before you did.
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Posted at 05/08/2006 8:02pm by Bjorn Nitmo
Yeah, delete my post rather than giving credit where credit is due. I can wait until someone rips content from your site and you start wailing about it. Do the right thing.
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Posted at 05/08/2006 8:06pm by i hate you
check my site out it has a bunch of these pics
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Posted at 05/09/2006 01:13am by Bjorn Nitmo
I want to post a retraction to my earlier comments (for those that saw them) that said TechEBlog didn't give credit to Vintage Computing & Gaming for this story. I didn't notice that they had and I jumped to conclusions. I was wrong and out of line and for that I want to apologize the author of this story and this site in general.
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Posted at 05/09/2006 6:52pm by 10 megabyte hard disk for $3,495 in 1980 at RV2 [blog]
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