Timeline for What was the typical amount of disk storage for a mainframe installation in the 1980s?
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| Sep 11 at 1:25 | answer | added | Jerry Coffin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 10 at 17:31 | comment | added | davolfman | Don't forget StorageTech-style tape libraries were definitely a thing for mainframes. So a lot of systems may have had even more storage on tape that was relatively quickly accessible. | |
| Sep 9 at 20:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 9 at 16:38 | answer | added | Richard Kirk | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9 at 15:24 | answer | added | Adrian McCarthy | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 9 at 14:13 | answer | added | LAK | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9 at 14:02 | answer | added | Michael | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 9 at 0:17 | answer | added | Leo B. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 8 at 16:15 | answer | added | Miss Understands | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 8 at 15:42 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @SpacePhoenix, Your first computer was maybe not quite in the same league as "a large university's...main computer [that] was used for student assignments as well as most administrative tasks." | |
| Sep 8 at 8:58 | comment | added | SpacePhoenix | My first computer had a tape drive and no floppy drive or hard drive (it was a ZX Spectrum) | |
| Sep 8 at 2:58 | comment | added | RonJohn | @Swechsler the PDP-10 was discontinued in 1983. Your university was only using them because of existing software. | |
| Sep 7 at 22:47 | answer | added | Raffzahn | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 7 at 18:23 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | @dave, Yeah, well, nobody told me that at the time. They just said, "C'm on, we're going to see the gigabyte disk drive." | |
| Sep 7 at 18:10 | comment | added | dave | @SolomonSlow - the RP20 was a two-spindle device, so actually two half-gig discs. | |
| Sep 7 at 9:53 | answer | added | Michael Graf | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 7 at 8:05 | answer | added | Mark Morgan Lloyd | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 7 at 7:04 | comment | added | Miss Understands | @SolomonSlow A geek never forgets his first gig. | |
| Sep 7 at 6:06 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Sep 7 at 2:03 | comment | added | Swechsler | @RonJohn I've probably used more Vaxen than any other mini. But it was never the school's main machine. | |
| Sep 7 at 1:26 | comment | added | Solomon Slow | I remember standing with a dozen or more geeks in the hall outside the C-MU computing center's main machine room, hoping to catch sight of a DEC RP20 that was delivered that day. Everyone wanted to be able to say that they had personally laid eyes on a one gigabyte hard drive. It felt like we were witnessing the dawn of a new age. No other threshold after that felt quite the same as that first gig. | |
| Sep 6 at 23:22 | comment | added | RonJohn | VAX were very common in the late 1980s. | |
| Sep 6 at 22:38 | answer | added | dave | timeline score: 7 | |
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| S Sep 6 at 22:05 | history | asked | Swechsler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |