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Originally Posted by HarryT
Cost. I was involved in numerous mainframe to PC transitions during the 1980s; the cost savings were enormous.
(Although I'm not sure I see the relevance to the current topic!)
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I hadn't made it past page one when I responded, but it's relevant all right.
The comment I was responding to related to remote storage of ebooks. Mainframe and dumb terminals being equivalent to cloud storage and and local dumb device.
That model isn't going to replace local storage for me, although others seem to be fine with it.