How much would these have cost 'in the day'?

Doing some cleaning out of a storage room and found an old server from 1990. Running in it were 2 double size SCSI drives (don't have the brand off hand, I think they're Seagate) that weigh close to 10 pounds each Now. Here's the kicker. The manfacturing date was 1990... BUT, they're 1gig drives. I don't know about you, but that sounds expensive for something of that size.

I have them here at home now along with the controller card (Some Adaptec ISA) they still work, not sure what the data access times are like though.

i have some 2gig drives like that! 50 pin? about 10pound each..... yep that sounds familiar~ back in the day i bet they were EXPENSIVE!!!! and were the largest storage avalible at the time......

BAH! You and your puny HDD...

I have this in my drawer:



Its 40MB and is almost 20 POUNDS!

1 gig SCSI hard drives cost about $800 USD or more in 1990, I'm pretty sure.

donny_paycheck said:

1 gig SCSI hard drives cost about $800 USD or more in 1990, I'm pretty sure.

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Try thousands.

i bet it cost a lot.... our top of the line 486 came with a 480meg hard drive in 1992 or 93.

larva said:

Try thousands.

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Yeah I underestimated...I got a 1 gig Seagate SCSI drive (full height 51/4") in 1992 for about $850. A few years before means beaucoup bucks beyond.

My dad said that he didn't think SCSI existed in 90, but then I told him. He probably didn't know because they were so expensive.
He bought servers for Intrust bank in like 92 or 93.
2 of them
486s in them
1 processor
almost 2 gigs in each of them
total:
$54000

WOW