[GDRussiayear]

I'm curious and want to know what hard disks were like back in 1989.

How much was a megabyte worth in those days?

[ptmQqoxw]

The same as now just smaller.

[Alexeric]

The same as now just smaller.

[rofl]

[GDRussiayear]

Or bigger?

[TubOppomo]

They were very thick for little storage. I believe 20MB or 40MB models were common by then.. or I am wrong and those are from a few years later.

[Unergerah]

Had a 286 with 20MB HDD

[yK2VgoEI]

During the '90s I picked up an IBM AT PC from where my Dad worked for a tenner. That had a 20MB HDD which must have been about 2 or 3 inches thick!

[njfeedd3w]

What were hard disks like 20 years ago? Shyte!

[yK2VgoEI]

Shyte!

I'm sure in another 20 years the HDDs we have now will be considered "shyte" as well.

[alexosnasos2]

They were physically large in size, small in capacity, loud, and expensive. The exact details I don't remember, but those vague descriptors fit well. [rofl]

[joOEMcheapSOFTWARE]

About the size of a 5.25" DVD drive.

[chadnezzrr]

About the size of a 5.25" DVD drive.

some even thicker...lol

[art_fan_12]

in the 80's my family's system had a 5 1/4 inch 8MB hdd, i remember we upgraded in the early 90's to something with 8GB on it.

[QQQQQ-Trek]

in the 80's my family's system had a 5 1/4 inch 8MB hdd, i remember we upgraded in the early 90's to something with 8GB on it.

Early 90s? That must have cost an arm and a leg. Ouch from a time line of consumer drives "1992 1GB ~$1,000.00"

We had a 40MB drive the early 90s. I remember selling a 500 meg drive to a friend in '96 for 50 pounds and he (rightly) thought he was getting a good deal.

[VrQsgM7c]

I can't tell you about 1989, but in 1991 my parents bought our first home PC. It was a Ti'ko (long since gone bust) 386SX 25 with a 14" VGA monitor, no sound card, 1MB RAM and a 40MB HDD. We also had a citizen 224 dot matrix printer (it was a 24-bit dot-matrix instead of a 9-bit). From memory it had 32Kb of video RAM....oh the memories. I remember when it arrived in about 5 massive cardboard boxes. It cost £999 at the time, so really PC's don't cost any more now than 18 years ago. I do feel a lot older though!

[ziIReIGS]

I don't remember what HDD was in my XT back in 1987, but my first 386 had an 80MB drive. I used to go through every folder and delete all the optional files (read me etc) to make enough extra space to install another game. Paid $1700 to take that 386 SX/25 with an 80MB HDD to a 486 DX/33 with a 255MB drive. I filled that 255MB in mere moments. Went to a 3.2GB in 1998. Then a 15GB around 2000. I think my first 80GB was in 2002. Bought another the next year. Then got a 200GB around 2004 and added a 500GB about two years ago. Currently using the 200 and 500 drives. I think 80GB was when I finally stopped stressing over disk space. I could finally install all the programs and games I wanted.

[juyrett]

in the 80's my family's system had a 5 1/4 inch 8MB hdd, i remember we upgraded in the early 90's to something with 8GB on it.

That can't be right. My family got our first PC in '96 with a 2gb HDD, and i didn't know anyone at the time who even had a 1gb HDD. I remember my friend being amazed that you could actually hear the 8x CD drive spinning up because it was 'so fast!'

[unlomarma]

circa 1979 (30 years baby!)

[Riprincattiva]

This might answer a lot of questions (and raise a few eyebrows)

http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html

[Joesred]

Had an Amstrad 20286 with a 40mb HDD around 1989.