300mb disc drives

[Ethan Dicks]

On 5/27/05, John Allain <allain at panix.com> wrote:
> >>> I can't remember any hard disks greater then
> >>> 50MB being available even into the late 1980's.
> 
> >> CDC 9766's in 1979...
>
> We were very familiar with the CDC 300 MB type units round
> about 1983, when they were getting a bit old.

ISTR we got our 450 MB RA81 in the middle of 1984.  It wasn't really
groundbreaking compared to the rest of the industry, but it was pretty
big for DEC.  On the -10 side, I am pretty sure the RP07 (at 512MB)
was contemporaneous, but I can't recall its exact year of release.

By the mid-1980s, 400MB+ was "ordinary" if you had the $10K-$20K to
pony up for it.  OTOH, due to cost, lots of sites made do with older,
smaller capacity disks.

-ethan