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Old 08-28-2006, 06:34 PM
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400 GB hard drives for $100 at Costco?

Apparently available at some Southern California Costco stores, maybe...?

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/28/costco_400gb_100/

Be on the lookout during your next Costco shopping expedition.
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Old 08-28-2006, 06:43 PM
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I.T. will never cease to amaze me. My first Hard-Drive was a 120 MB 5 1/4" drive (the biggest, meanest, fastest HDD of it's time) on a Compaq 386; the HDD alone was a 2.500 USD optional....

so.. roughly 21.000 USD / GByte

compared to about 4 bucks per gigabite on today's WD HDD's...

hmm.. that's a 5,250 times cheaper...

.. and to think the difference will just keep getting bigger...
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Old 08-28-2006, 06:56 PM
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I.T. will never cease to amaze me. My first Hard-Drive was a 120 MB 5 1/4" drive (the biggest, meanest, fastest HDD of it's time) on a Compaq 386; the HDD alone was a 2.500 USD optional....

so.. roughly 21.000 USD / GByte

compared to about 4 bucks per gigabite on today's WD HDD's...

hmm.. that's a 5,250 times cheaper...

.. and to think the difference will just keep getting bigger...
120 MB hard drive? My first hard drive was 10 MB and I probably paid a couple of hundred bucks for it back in the mid-80's.
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Old 08-28-2006, 07:11 PM
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120 MB hard drive? My first hard drive was 10 MB and I probably paid a couple of hundred bucks for it back in the mid-80's.
Probably an IBM 8086-processor PC? I heard the first HDD's on the IBM PC's were 10MB. I only joined the PC-world in late 1987 with the Compaq 386.
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Old 08-28-2006, 07:16 PM
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What HD in the mid-80's?
I was happy to have a floppy drive.
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I've got you all beat. I've used punch cards.
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What HD in the mid-80's?
I was happy to have a floppy drive.
I agree. My first Computer was a Radio Shack TRS 80 in 1979 with 2 floppy disks of 80k each. The amazing things is that the entire operating system (named LDOS) took only 75k
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I've got you all beat. I've used punch cards.
Somehow I had a feeling we'd get down to card-punchers on this thread. Must have been a riot !

Hope we don't go all the way to abacus-users !!
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Old 08-28-2006, 07:40 PM
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I've got you all beat. I've used punch cards.
I have used punch cards too during my last years of high school. We had to put our programs (500 to 3000 of punch cards) in a drawer in the afternoon to get them compiled during the night and get the results back the next day. You can imagine how long it tooks us to debug a program. You learn to be very efficient in writing bug free code . When I went to college I was amazed that I could actually use a terminal to enter my programs and get them compiled right away.
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I've got you all beat. I've used punch cards.
My college installed DEC VT102 terminals the summer before my freshman year, so I missed the punch cards by 1 semester.... lucky me

I do remember buying 2GB HD's in '95 for $2k-$3k each....
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