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40 year ago, Who'd have thought that

by David Crowson at 12:21 19/09/06 (Blogs::Dave)

you could now buy over a terrabyte of disk storage for 353 quid inc. VAT

:):)

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bombholio

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40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	David Crowson - 12:21 19/09/06
Re: 40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	Jonathan Tuppeny - 12:34 20/09/06
Back in '95 when I was working at Lewis, the boss told my colleague to get a price on a terabyte of storage. No amount of 'are you sure you mean a terabyte' cut any ice - 'Just do it!' came back in reply. The best he could come up with was £50K for half a terabyte that came in it's own handy full size cabinet. Ah, those were the days - when lots of storage space actually looked like lots of storage space... -- jht
Re: 40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	Bruce Ure - 13:16 20/09/06
The fact that he meant 'a gigabyte' is equally scary! --
Re: 40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	David Crowson - 12:12 04/01/07
and in 3 years time, how about a 3.5inch disk with 300Tb :-o -- bombholio
Re: 40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	Simon - 12:39 04/01/07
# fsck -y /dev/hda1 & ... and leave a message for your grandchildren to check if it's finished. -- simon
Re: 40 year ago, Who'd have thought that	David Crowson - 13:37 04/01/07
grandchildren, damn, I knew there was a flaw in my plan somewhere...... :) -- bombholio