Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network
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On 07/15/08 20:46, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> [2008 Jul 15 17:12 -0500]:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> Last Wednesday, I bought two WD6400AAKS drives from NewEgg.
>>>
>>> They were manufactured in Thailand only 21 days ago. They couldn't
>>> have been sitting in NE's warehouse very long...
>>>
>> About $90 each. But 640GB each what a world are you going to store on
>> them? And also amazing is the cost/GB. I remember when at IBM a 125MB
>> disk was a super deal...
>
> Right at 18 years ago I bought my first hard drive, a Seagate 20 MB MFM
> drive with a Western Digital controller card for my PC XT clone for
> $80. I thought it was a heckuva deal.
In 1990? Seems like it would have been a close-out deal.
> That computer served me very well for several years.
Leading Edge D?
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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