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Old 05-30-2010, 11:39 AM   #16381
Greg Anos
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
ha ! 50 go ! 50 go was just a dream when i bought my first one, it seems. i just checked my records and it looks like the first one i bought, in 2000, was FIFTEEN go !!! the entire thing ! for system and data !!! my god, i don't know how i managed. and i paid 669Francs for it, which is 102€ according to a handy online converter.

my last hard drive, which is 1To as i mentioned, cost me 71.80€, in november 2008.
I bought my first hard drive in 1983. $800 US for 10 Megabytes (bare drive)...

Now I can buy 12 Terabytes for that price... that's a million times more storage in 27 years, and the dollars buy less food and such...
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