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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
The cost of a 2-terabyte USB.3 drive was less than $150. I remember paying almost $350 for a 250 megabyte drive back in the day. I had to install a new card in the tower to handle the new USB.3 Now I'm copying files and getting blown away by how much faster USB.3 is over USB .2
Stitchawl
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I always wonder at the price of electronic devices, it drops greatly as new technology is "discovered".
usb 3.0 is that fast?...
no, I'll wait until they launch usb 4.0
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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
*SIGH* SS remembers the 8" floppy disks! They were actually floppy then and you could see the little arm inside the drive tapping away. A great big 8" black and green monitor on a stick went with it as well as a 9 pin dot matric printer!. didn't know what the internet was, but we still had to connect to a modem!
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I guess I'm not the "odd one out" here. I remember the "floppy" disks too! But just a later generation from yours SS. They were much smaller. And if you leave one in the CPU floppy disk drive, Windows 98 won't run...