This is an extremely rare example of the first commercially available hard drive for 8-bit home computers, the Corvus Disk System on the Atari 800. Only the most elite of Atari 800 BBS users could afford a hard disk for a "toy" computer system normally associated with video games. In the early 1980's, Corvus was aligned with Apple to provide centralized storage solutions for the educational market. In 1982, Corvus announced support for the Atari 800, and prices for the disk system including interface and software started at $3200 for a 5MB drive. This shows the boot process of the system. The boot loader disk loads before the screen warms up, and shows the message "Network not ready" until only the 'Ready' indicator is lit on the disk drive. Also shown is a demonstration of how the Corvus Disk System works. The software maps seven virtual disks (D2 - D7) to one of it's own partitions ranging from A - Z. Virtual disk groups are switched by 'Binary Load' of the desired partition label (ex: L D1:B to switch to the second partition with 7 virtual disks) This particular 10MB Corvus Disk System appears to be full of GAMES...

This video demonstrates a 1982 era setup of an Atari 800 with 256K of Axlon memory being attached to a Corvus 6 megabyte hard drive, and going through workflows of developing software with the Atari Macro Assembler (AMAC), and its associated text editor (MEDIT). Other housekeeping functions are also shown, and the Atari Amoeba debugging tool makes a short visit.