> From: Russ Butler <eovaaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Paul Laughlin wrote:
>> And to think that it hasn't been all that long ago that hard drives
>> were
>> going for $1 per megabyte.
>>
> And iirc I paid $300 per meg on my first 10 meg hard drive back in the
> stone ages.
Not at all trying to play one-upsmanship here, but my first hard drive
had two 8" platters and a stepper motor, with an incredibly fast 150mS
seek time (compared to the 400mS floppies I'd been using). Two 4MB
drives cost me $1,800, as I recall. I believe that's close to a half-
million a gigabyte.
Things have changed.
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