To: qam1
Yeah, 30MB was considered large but not unheard of. You really paid through the nose for it, too.
23 posted on
11/20/2020 9:05:27 PM PST by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
Yeah, 30MB was considered large but not unheard of. You really paid through the nose for it, too. I bought a 32 MB disk on a card in the late 1980s, probably 1987, for about $500. Now for that you can probably get either 500 GB or 1 TB - along with the computer attached to it.
39 posted on
11/20/2020 9:26:32 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
To: dayglored
i remember a college guy i knew, he couldn’t get a computer dealer to sell him a 100mb drive because ‘no one will ever fill up a 100mb drive’
46 posted on
11/20/2020 10:02:27 PM PST by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: dayglored
- Yeah, 30MB was considered large but not unheard of. You really paid through the nose for it, too. - Yep, they were quite expensive. Back in 1989 a 40 MB hard drive set me back about $370.
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