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Now this would help keep Free Republic threads of interest!

1 posted on 01/13/2004 12:17:55 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I'll have to get one for my laptop. I've only got 100GB on it.

2 posted on 01/13/2004 12:44:22 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

To: rdb3; TechJunkYard; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Dominic Harr; Bush2000; Nick Danger; ...

...and now for something completely different tech ping

4 posted on 01/13/2004 12:55:18 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I used to have a Micro Forge external hard drive on my Amiga 1000. It was about the size of a breadbox and held 20 megabytes of data.

9 posted on 01/13/2004 7:37:39 PM PST by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')

To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

>> 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Once formatted, the actual available storage capacity varies depending on operating environment.

A thousand gigabytes, a million megabytes.

A few months ago I got a nice 40 gig 7200 RPM ATA100 drive from the refurb section of one of the local shops for about 50 bucks - bought it for a computer I was building for the wife but decided it was fair to put my old 8 gig in hers and keep the new one for myself (she don't know the difference, she just uses it to play Slingo). Really sped things up, and I figger it'd take durn near forever to fill it up with the dialup we have available in my neighborhood.

Heck, this thing'd probably take a couple days just to format on this old 'puter I have, not to mention defrag.

And I didn't see the price in that article either.

(There, I feel better now)

14 posted on 01/13/2004 9:40:48 PM PST by Clinging Bitterly (President Bush sends his regards.)

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