History (1989): SSDs Still Very Expensive at Comdex/Fall’89

At Comdex/Fall’89, SSDs were still expensive and looked just like a dream, with super-rapid access times, close to 0.2ms. They still are expensive, limiting their use.

In the 8-inch form factor, Fujitsu offers 40 to 60MB.

In the 5.25-inch one, Hitachi’s products range from 16 to 80MB. NEC even reaches 125MB in the same form factor.

ln the 3.5-inch one, Newer Technology is marketing RAM disks ranging from 10MB ($2,695 to OEMs) to 64MB.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠22, published on November 1989.