[Ham-Computers] RE: Multiple drives, is there a way to . . .

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Actually, as I recall the first commercially available may have been a 
full-height 5-1/4" form factor 5 MB in the early model IBM PC.  The first one I 
bought was 10 MB. also 5-1/4 full-height.  The first ones I bought in quantity 
were half-height 1 GB.  I bought 20 of them at one time in a Tricord.  Maybe 
Aaron has heard of them.  Unlikely any of the others on this list have.  Total 
cost in excess of $100K.  For a brief period, we had the largest storage array in 
Houston.  Larger than out at JSC.

In a message dated 2/7/2008 8:00:45 PM Central Standard Time, 
aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com writes: 
> And to think, I can remember when I paid "big bux" for a HUGE 40MB drive 
> for 
> my 386 ;-)
> 
> My reply:
> Hehe, my first drive was a 30MB Seagate ST-238 RLL drive and it was $400.  
> Plus $100 for a WDXT RLL drive controller.  30MB!  Wow...didn't know exactly 
> what to do with all that space.  Wordstar only took up a 300K and most other 
> apps still fit on one 360K floppy.  I think the largest app I had at the time 
> was some Microsoft language - possibly QuickBasic, QuickC, or MASM.
> 
> Anyways, enough reminesing...I could go on for hours!

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