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Shit man, pair that baby up with your brand new 256 color monitor and your phone cradle 200 baud modem, and your ready to talk to the women on the BBS

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Oh yeah.. 1hr to download a .jpeg of alyssa milano (teenage me didn't know just how vapid a twit she was / still is)

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That was probably an MFM hard drive. Hard to tell from the ad, it was likely a 5 1/4" drive.

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That's a Seagate ST-412 full-height MFM (pre-RLL) drive, and was brand new for the 1981 model year. It should conform to ESDI.

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Oh, so XCOMP was just a reseller.

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Yes. The sold the bare drive with controllers for various systems, along with software to access said drive. S-100 bus was the most popular until IBM force-fed ISA to the public.

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Somewhere there is a child using a cell phone to look up what an "MB" is.

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My first PCXT in 1988 was rocking a 20MB hard drive, 5 1/4 360K drive, hercules graphics card and ambervision monitor! Got a modem later.

EDIT: fixed the year. Also ambervision is the best monochrome. Or orange. Not green, grey, or white.

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$3400 of 80s money.. you could have probably bought a brand new car with that.

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A 1988 Chevrolet Citation was about an $11000 MSRP.

Twelve years earlier, before the Carter Administration and all the financial turmoil/inflation he caused, a 1976 Chevrolet Nova was $3,250 to $3,970 MSRP.

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I remember buying full-height Seagate drives, which this is for IBM XT desktops. This transformed my computing experience by eliminating the need for a mountain of floppies.