hard drive history

Photo: Red Hill.

Quantum Bigfoot

There were four families of the lamentable Bigfoot; this set of three drive models was the first of them.

These unnamed drives — just "Bigfoot" without the usual two-letter suffix — were fairly uncommon on the market. They were big and cheap, but spectacularly slow, and the only volume buyers were the usual suspects — giant vendors of consumer junk.

Illustration: a Bigfoot 1280AT out of a Compaq consumer box.

A separate page provides background on the Bigfoot principle and considers its strengths and weaknesses.