I wonder what this sold for originally?

[Mike Schwartz]

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200385190566
> 
> Tandy 12MB HD drive, with Xenix and filePro 16 Plus installed.
> Currently
> selling for $9.99 plus $25 shipping.  I think the HD alone was in the
> multi-thousand dollar range originally.
> 
> --
> Kenneth Brody
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     The first 8 meg hard drive I had a chance to play with was hooked to a
Model II at American Can running TRSDOS.  That one cost over $7,500.00, and
then the boss couldn't understand how we managed to fill it up and needed a
secondary 8 meg for nearly the same price!

     We had a special meeting of the local computer club after we got that 8
meg working with Profile II.  First we demoed a profile report running on
the 4 floppy drives.  (Lots of blinking lights)  Then we ran the same report
on the 8 meg.  What a difference!

     In the 1986 Tandy computer catalogue, the 70 meggers were already out,
but a 12 meg primary drive still listed for $1595.00, and a 12 meg secondary
listed for $1295.00.  This Ebay item must be a primary.  If it were a
secondary he would probably only be asking $6.99 for it!  :<))     

     I know I have Tandy catalogues going back to 1983, but I'm too busy
installing Windows Home Server on an old computer for my church right now.
I just replaced the old 20 gig drive with a brand new 160 GIG IDE drive that
I bought for $44.95!

     Let's see, 12 megs for $1595.00 = $133.00 per meg.  160,000 megs for
$44.95 = 0.0003 cents per meg!  (Well, OK, the drive did cost $44.95 plus a
few bucks for shipping...)

Mike Schwartz