{"id":132,"date":"2005-07-09T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2005-07-09T18:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/09\/the-amazing-progression-of-hard-drive-pricing"},"modified":"2005-07-09T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T18:18:15","slug":"the-amazing-progression-of-hard-drive-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"The amazing progression of hard drive pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!117\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<div>I got started with computers about the time the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?c=409\">TRS 80 Model\u00a01<\/a> came out. Yes, that long ago.\u00a0 Back then, pretty much only mainframes had hard drives and they stored very little data &#8211; perhaps 20 megabytes.\u00a0 In the mid 80&#8217;s, I got my first hard drive for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarimagazines.com\/creative\/v11n6\/36_Tandy_1200_HD_Winchester.php\">Tandy 1200<\/a>, which was a Tandy &quot;clone&quot; of the IBM PC.\u00a0 It was 5 megabytes before formatting, it was 4 megabytes after.\u00a0 A few years later I got an 80 megabyte hard drive for roughly $500.\u00a0 So in the late 80&#8217;s, it was something like $6.25 per <strong>megabyte<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Today, I&#8217;m looking at buying a couple of 400 <strong>gigabyte<\/strong> hard drives.\u00a0 Each one will cost roughly $260.\u00a0 Or about $.07 per megabyte.\u00a0 Wow.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>So for $780, if I wanted to, I could purchase roughly a <strong>terabyte<\/strong> of storage space.\u00a0 I might just have to do that!\u00a0 &quot;Are you happy to see me or is that a terabyte of storage in your PC?&quot;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/rte\/emoticons\/smile_teeth.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got started with computers about the time the TRS 80 Model\u00a01 came out. Yes, that long ago.\u00a0 Back then, pretty much only mainframes had hard drives and they stored very little data &#8211; perhaps 20 megabytes.\u00a0 In the mid 80&#8217;s, I got my first hard drive for my Tandy 1200, which was a Tandy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}