free 1G external scsi disk and case

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Dan Singer wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Dan Singer wrote:
> >
> > > That was about 15 years ago?
> >
> > no. 1G was big about 10 years ago. I remember having
> > a 1G disk at Duke that everyone thought was big
>
> In our department purchase logs, I can see purchases of CDC 94601-12G
> 1230MB disks going back as far as 2/90, and ST41200N 1.04GB disks
> starting around 6/91.  So, I'm not sure who would have thought 1 GB
> was big in 1995, when we were buying disks in the 2-4 GB range, eg,
> ST15230N.  What year were you talking about?  ;)

OK everyone = everyone in the underfunded biochemistry dept.

1996. I wasn't in a well equiped CS dept. It was a disk 
attached to an X-ray diffraction machine. One experiment 
filled the disk.

Joe

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