2006-12-05 02:07:33 · 9 answers · asked by Lord L 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I read somewhere that is was expensive. I don't recall but I say it was in the thousands. Roughly $1500 I think.
2006-12-05 02:08:57 · answer #1 · answered by Not_Here 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A gigabyte was not available 30 years ago, not in a single device.
In 1976, the first Apples were around and some of the early TRS computers. Fully decked out they had 256k of ram. Hard disks were not available yet, things were stored on audio tapes, then floppy disks.
Early 80's you could get a 10Meg hard drive for about $400. So to get up to a Gig of space, you would have about $40,000 to get that much storage, but the operating systems couldn't handle it.
2006-12-05 02:18:22 · answer #2 · answered by Aggie80 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1988 I paid...
$550 for a 20Meg RLL hard drive
$275 for 256 Kbs of RAM (Not megabyte)
My new computer was a 80286 8mhz with 1 Mb of RAM an a 10 Mb MFM hard drive. 1200 baud modem, thats 1.2 Kbps. The video card had 256 Kb of memory.
In 1982 I had a Radio Shack computer that had 2 8" floppies and ran MC\P instead of DOS (Windows was about 10 yrs off), and it had 64Kb of RAM.
I guess my answer was there was not a 1 gigabyte drive or memory module 30 yrs ago.
For reference Windows 95,98,ME could not utilize over 512MB of RAM effectively.
2006-12-05 02:22:50 · answer #3 · answered by acklan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been in the industry a long time. While working as IT support for a company back in 1989 I remenber a 300MB seagate hard driver costing the company almost $8000.00 ... 1GB hard drives did not exist.
One more thing ... LOL ... the actual drive was as big as a shoebox.
If you are refering to RAM ... well, back in 1994 ram cost about $40 per MB .... multiply that by 1000MB in a GIG & you get $40,000.00 for 1GB or ram twelve years ago .... 30 years ago it was simply inconceivable to on how to even use that much memory.
regards,
Philip T
2006-12-05 02:18:48 · answer #4 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thirty years? Please, NASA were proud of 10MB. Your home hard drive which you tacked onto the side of your commodore would have been 2MB at best and was for your save games. Information went back and forth on floppy discs. Using technology of the time, if you taped together all the 2MB hardrives until you got a gigabyte? We're talking into the tens of thousands of pounds at least.
2006-12-05 02:17:50 · answer #5 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gigabyte? 30yrs ago?
Hardley....the 1st home pc cost well abpove 300 bucks and had a 186 prcessor and no hard drive....you had to use an operating disc for everything you did.
Am I showing my age yet?
2006-12-05 02:18:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was 10,000for 5 megabytes in 1956 And 193 for 26 megabytes
2006-12-05 02:18:48 · answer #7 · answered by Tara G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahaha yeah they didnt have the word back then 256k was way to much space and people wondered what you would do with all that space 20 years ago. but to answer your question it would have been thousands.
2006-12-05 02:09:43 · answer #8 · answered by gsschulte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it wasn't possible in 1 harddisk, long magnetic band, my approximation : over 1000$
2006-12-05 02:09:52 · answer #9 · answered by midday 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋