300mb disc drives

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes:

 Ethan> 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.

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

I think the RP07 is closer to 1981, at least I see traces of them in
source code dated 1981.

Then again, the RP07 is a rather big cabinet, while the RA81 is a rack
mount unit the same size as an RK05 or RL02.

      paul