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To: Celtic Conservative

I know, we used to pay $3-5/MB for a rotating hard drive, and I just bought a 256,000MB (or $750,000 worth) thumb drive for $40 at Costco. Amazing.


39 posted on 01/18/2017 3:57:14 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
I know, we used to pay $3-5/MB for a rotating hard drive,

You paid cheap. Back in the 1970s it was common to spend many hundreds of dollars per MB on hard drives. They were only 5MB and huge boxes.

45 posted on 01/18/2017 4:10:52 PM PST by roadcat
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