The Quantum Lightning 730MB drives were the tipping point for me — likely around 1994/1995? They were readily available for just under AUD1/MB for the 50-pin narrow SCSI-2 version. I bought heaps of them, and still have maybe half a dozen spinning today. d > On 25 Nov 2017, at 07:18, Ron Natalie wrote: > > I remember in 1990 we got our first 1Gig drive, I paid $1000 for it. ($1/MB). > One of the sales guys I worked with had a unit of storage called the “Costco Terabyte.” How much one terabyte of storage costs at Costco. > When we started tracking it, it was around $5000. It was down about $40 last I checked. >   <> > From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Henry Bent > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2017 1:17 PM > To: Nelson H. F. Beebe > Cc: TUHS main list > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from `quotes' > > On 24 November 2017 at 13:06, Nelson H. F. Beebe > wrote: >> P.S. In 1990, we filled a dumpster with 9-track tapes that we had to >> abandon because of our move to new hardware that lacked such a drive, >> and because our new disk system had insufficent disk space to preserve >> their contents. >> >> I have since regretted that decision many times, because a lot of >> stuff was lost forever. >> >> The maximum capacity of 6250-bpi 9-track tapes was about 100MB to >> 170MB. A thousand such tapes would have needed just 100GB to 170GB, >> an amount of space that I can now buy in Utah for about US$4 (based on >> a local store offering of $94 for a 4TB USB-3 attached disk about the >> size of a paperback thriller). > > Sure, but how much would 170GB of storage have cost in 1990? And what would have been the cost to mirror it, or to back it up on to a more modern tape format? Was that data really worth tens of thousands of dollars? > > -Henry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: