[LUNI] Oh the "good old days"

[Scott Lockwood]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 11:23 -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> I was going through some old papers yesterday and came across an invoice
> for a CD-ROM drive that I bought back in April '93.  This was a 2x (or
> maybe a 4x, I don't recall) internal drive I bought from DC Drives (DC
> stood for Dirt Cheap, a relative term in this case) in Houston.
> 
> Toshiba T3401I16 200mS drive with SCSI controller card    $619.00
> (no such thing as IDE CD's then)
> 
> In all fairness, the UltraStore ULTRA14F was $195.00 by itself
> 
> Keep in mind this is a reader only.  IIRC, I bought an HP writer a
> couple of years later for about $1000.
> 
> - Mike Scott
> 


Niiiice!  I still have the conner 175 Meg drive I bought from Conner's
sysop program in '93 - for $275. It doesn't work anymore, but it makes
an excellent paperweight.


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