Purchased 3 years apart.
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Back in like 1999 when the price of a server with 1TB got below $10k my boss purchased one, just because.
How about a 5 MB hard drive in 1980 for $1500? Wow! just imagine what you can do with all of that storage space!
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Been there, did that 
but I think it was more like 1983 for me.
I chose at the time to build a MIDI board. I did something wrong in my machine code driver with interrupts and corrupted the HDD twice. That ended me putting protoboards on the motherboard. Luckily by then I was able to buy a commercial MIDI board⌠probably for about the same as the HDD, but I donât remember.
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Yep, I bought plenty of those little drives by like 1983⌠when I was making commercial midi boards, as it happens
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A four gigabyte hard drive unit was $30k in 1990 
⌠I still remember reading the news about one being available. I was on fifth grade at the time and was nerdy enough to keep up with that kind of stuff, lol.
Here ya go: IBM 5 MB hard drive. Portable, too.
I am puzzled as to why the Pan-Am Airways logo would be upside down when the hatch is closed.
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The writing is strangely bright despite being in the shade of the hatch. I wonder whether the logo has been photoshopped in later.
The cabinet looks impressive
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Equally as puzzling, why would the logo face the interior when the hatch is closed? It must have been photoshopped.
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Because more people will see it when the door is open compared to the total who will ever see it when it is closed?
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⌠and what have you got against VVd Air Freight anyway? I hear theyâre very reliable 
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hmm, that seems to say PAA⌠def not Pan-Am
ok, never saw that one before, I stand corrected
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And here it is! Iâll bet a lot of us had some of these back in the day: https://www.redhill.net.au/d/2.php
I remember some 100 MB Maxtor disks that often developed stiction. The seagate 50MB I had (gotten for cost and in a nice case with SCSI port) lasted me several years. So much storage back then, when 1.44MB floppies still ruled. And even those where a huge step up from the ârealâ floppiesâŚ
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PAA = Pan American Airways
Iâm guessing that itâs a Douglas DC-7F, and hereâs a photo of one in KLM livery:
Note the right-side-up âKLM CARGO QUEENâ lettering on the front and aft doors. I guess it was the thing to do. Makes sense. If you were reading it from the inside, theyâd already have gotten your business.
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I had (still have, actually) a (20 MB?) âZFPâ SCSI hard drive for my MacPlus, similar to this one:
âZFPâ was an abbreviation of âZero FootPrintâ, meaning that it was exactly the same width and length as the bottom of a MacPlus, and so did not take up additional desk space.
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My first harddisk (ca 1989) was a secondhand 5 1/4 inch drive (ca 50MB), I donât remember the exact model. I salvaged it from an older computer (early NC-controller ) that I got from the factory my father worked at. It was attached to the Amiga 500 using an OMTI controller and A.L.F. on EPROM.
Now, 2x M.2 4TB on a mini-ATX motherboard.
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