Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Deryk Barker]

Thus spake Pj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993 
> 
> Pg. 140; pgph 5: 
> 
> "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and
> gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable
> of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
> $2,500. 
> 
> Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?

I have lying on a shelf a 137MB drive that cost me around $1500 in
1990.

And I remember 100MB drive which cost $30,000 - mind you this was in
the 70s.

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