Back in the day 80 ish we bought 8 7933's for 200K to replace 8 7920 removable pack disks, and you could tell when you were running a heavy database load. The disks would walk across the room. When we added a second series 64 system we bought 8 Falcon disks from EMC that were 670mb drives that were a knock off of the Eagle disks.
The cs80 utility firmware was an issue and needed frequent firmware upgrades.




>From: Steve Gray <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 2008/03/04 Tue PM 10:54:49 CST
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file from tape to disk -

>I believe the 7933 drives were around $33,000 each in the mid-80's.
> 
>
>Regards,
> 
>
>Steve Gray
>Abtech Support
>
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>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] newbie question -storing a file from tape to
>disk -
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>Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>> I still remember the Eagle 8 pack which provided 4GB of storage in one
>
>> cabinet the size of a double door refrigerator and the weight of one, 
>> if it were filled with steel pellets.
>
>We had one of the first "gigabyte" offerings from HP for our new Library
>online card catalog.  The "gig" package was 3 of the 404Mb 7933 drives,
>somewhere between washing machine (shook like one) and dishwasher size
>each.  There was a discount for a 3-pack :-) but it still had one heck
>of a price tag.
>
>We had Eagles too, and Coyotes.
>
>Jeff
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