Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 00:56, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2002, 23:18:30, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
[snip]
> When PC DASD (Hard-Drives) hit $1/MB, I was in shock. Now it's $1/GB.
> When PC RAM hit $1/MB I was really in shock. Now you can get 1 GB or RAM
> for a little over $100 . . .
I just purchased 1.5GB for US$94. If my math is right, that is $94 for
1536MB, thus $0.06/MB. What is my son going to think when I tell him
how impressed I was about this? What will I tell him about not being
able to fill up a 40MB disk?
> I hate being old.
But we'll be able to regale our grandchildren with such great (read:
boring) stories about the dawn of the PC age!!!!
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