Page From History

In this day where consumer-class terabyte drives approach the fifty buck price point, this Corvus ad from April 1981 seemed worthy of sharing.

Five million bytes at the newly-lowered price of $3750. That’s thirty seven hundred and fifty dollars, not a typo.

Corvus Ad circa 1981
Ad from Corvus Systems circa 1981: a 5 MB hard disk for the newly reduced price of $3750.00. (click to enlarge)

Just last week I was in an email discussion with a friend and he lamented the “good old days.” I’m not so sure that the old days were all that good. Did you have four large burning a hole in your pocket for storage back in 1981? I sure didn’t.

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  1. Heh. In ’81 I had an RCA VIP (1802 cpu) with a cassette recorder. Let’s see — $279 for the computer and $50 for the cassette recorder. Oh, yeah — the “monitor” was a 12″ RCA B&W TV that I got free when I bought my ’71 Gremlin.

    Incidentally, the Gremlin cost me a tad over $2100. What to buy? What to buy? A car or an even more expensive 5MB drive?

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