Hard Drive Cost

[peterhuang913]

How much did a hard drive cost in the 1980's? What is the size for the cost?

 

[b1gapl]

I don't know, but I found this:

 

[peterhuang913]

I had a picture, but I wanted to see if anyone else had a better one.

Here's mine:

 

[b1gapl]

Imagine the look on the guy's face who bought that, and the prices of today's hard drives.

 

[peterhuang913]

Imagine the look on the guy's face who bought that, and the prices of today's hard drives.

Yea, sucks to be him.

Back then it was 0.000003GB/$ , now it's like 5GB/$

 

[hercules_upw]

Yea, sucks to be him.

Back then it was 0.000003GB/$ , now it's like 5GB/$

And he was paying in 1980's money - Minimum wage was $3.10/hour

 

[peterhuang913]

And he was paying in 1980's money - Minimum wage was $3.10/hour

Wanna get smarter with me and correct my calculations?

 

[hercules_upw]

Wanna get smarter with me and correct my calculations?

I'm just saying inflation would make the drive even MORE expensive in today's money. like $7000. I think your math is fine, i didn't even check it.

 

[Vaanish]

Its a bit off topic but not much

 

[TheEnd187]

Omgithasawordprocessingsystem

it actually cant even run a basic Text document because im pretty sure it uses more than 64k to use noepad nowadays