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Our first drive was a 97 MB. One of its 4 platters was in a removable cartridge. It had caps nearly the size of a 1# coffee can that were solely for the purpose of retracting the heads in case of a power drop. We had an S100 bus system it was attached to.
 
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Bah, humbug!

An alpha/lsi with ferrite core memory. It could hold its memory for weeks. Endless storage on punch tape :)

I still remember dropping a company 100mb harddrive for our altos unix system on the floor. It costed me 5 months of salary. Luckily for me the insurance company covered it in the end...
 
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I remember getting taken to see one of the 1st computer installs at one of Universities here in the late 60's early 70's and while we were there the guy showing us around crashed the hard drive! cue much wailing and teeth grinding, he lost his job on the spot :( G
 
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When I was young I "inherited" our family's Mac Plus with all the bells and whistles - 4MB of RAM! It had an external HDD in an enclosure the size of a ream of letter size paper, I believe it was labeled "DataFrame" or something like that, that amounted to 20MB. It was helpful because it freed up the disk drive, and man could you store anything on a double sided floppy. Also came with a serial A/D and D/A for Audio, which would do one track at 8 bit and I forget the sample rate. I learned HyperCard on that machine, as well as some program that let me take audio and do amazing things to it - like change the pitch without changing the speed. Of course the HDD attached over SCSI, which had a great Centronix connector that felt like plugging in military hardware. Later in life we got a ZipDisc drive and that thing was faaaast!
 
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