At 10:12 AM 6/5/98 +1000, you wrote:
>it didn't have more was that I was paying for it, and the cost of 8Mb of
>memroy and 200Mb of disk, plus computer was lots. You tend to forget how
>much disk space used to cost, I've got the bill somewhere for the 200Mb
>Quantum SCSI disk - it was over AUD$2K. Total system cost was about $10K :-(
I recently came across an old invoice for a hard drive I had bought. This
was mail-order from a wholesaler, in 1993. $287 got me a Maxtor 213MB SCSI
drive. Which is a little over $1/MB.
Nowadays, Price Club has 5/6GB drives for about a nickel/MB.
(Of course, my first ever hard disk was a used ST-225 (and HDC) for $250 --
about $10/MB...)
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Received on Sat Jun 06 1998 - 18:43:59 BST