To: Secret Agent Man
A ton of my undergrad stuff were on those things. There was simply nothing else that could hold the file sizes I needed back in 2000.
But 30 bucks for 100MB? Seems like a bad joke now especially how those things could easily stop being readable at the drop of a hat. And they did!
8 posted on
03/22/2017 5:29:24 PM PDT by
VanDeKoik
To: VanDeKoik
I was fortunate, i never had a disk fail on me.
15 posted on
03/22/2017 5:38:39 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: VanDeKoik
But 30 bucks for 100MB? Seems like a bad joke now especially how those things could easily stop being readable at the drop of a hat. And they did! I paid $875.00 for my first 1 gig Conner hard drive. My first hard drive was a Sider 10 megabyte that I paid $400.00 for, used.
18 posted on
03/22/2017 5:41:47 PM PDT by
itsahoot
(Must learn to resist the compunction to offer advice or help to complainers.)
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