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Ken1943
Worth 30.5 mb Damn
KenW
KenW
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Ken Blake
At today's hard drive prices, you can buy a 500GB hard drive for
around $50 US (even less per GB if you get a bigger one). At that rate
30.5MB is about 1/3 of a penny's worth of disk space. 30.5 million
bytes may sound like a big number, but it's a *tiny* amount of disk
space these days.
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FooAtari
Huge.
Would have taken me forever to download 8 year ago on my 56K dial up
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Hot Totty
FooAtari said:Huge.
Would have taken me forever to download 8 year ago on my 56K dial up
We are now 8 years later so go ahead and download all the spywares you
can find before Microsoft decides that enough is enough. Microsoft
updates are all spywares according to Google.
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Hot Totty
Ken said:
You must have a very small penis to like huge downloads. Have you
thought of penis enlargement treatment? Try visiting some porn sites to
see if you still get an erection. It looks like your penis is not
functioning properly. Microsoft updates won't do any good for you.
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Char Jackson
Just to add to what you said, Newegg had a 2TB Seagate drive on sale
over the weekend, (actually, I think the sale ends on the 14th), for
$59.99 after $10 mail-in rebate, and they frequently put the Samsung
2TB drive on sale for $79.99 and allow the use of a blanket 10% off
coupon, bringing the final price to $72. All with free shipping, of
course.
I can't see complaining about drive space these days.
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Andy
The competitor to Microsoft that allot don't like
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Menno Hershberger
I remember buying a Tandy (I think it was a T1000 series) and I had the
option of getting a 20Mb or a 30Mb hard drive. I got the 20. Like what the
hell would I ever need 30Mb for?
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Ed Cryer
I can remember Bill Gates showing off a 64K silicon chip, and askingI remember buying a Tandy (I think it was a T1000 series) and I had the
option of getting a 20Mb or a 30Mb hard drive. I got the 20. Like what the
hell would I ever need 30Mb for?
"Who needs more memory than 64K"?
Ed
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FooAtari
Um, what? It was just a joke man. Lighten up.
I'm perfectly capable of keeping both my Windows and Linux boxes spyware
free.
Ah wait, I get it, are people still banging on about about the whole Bing,
Google affair. It really isn't that significant in the grand scheme of
things.
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Char Jackson
I believe the quote references 640K. (Still peanuts by today's Windows
standards.)
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Ed Cryer
You can't access higher than 64K on a 16-bit address bus.
Ed
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chrisv
"allot" ??? WTF do you mean?Andy said:The competitor to Microsoft that allot don't like
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relic
IAWTP!FooAtari said:
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Ken Blake
Yep, that's an example of what I meant when I said "even less per GB
if you get a bigger one."
Yes, my point exactly.
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Ken Blake
I remember buying a Tandy (I think it was a T1000 series) and I had the
option of getting a 20Mb or a 30Mb hard drive. I got the 20. Like what the
hell would I ever need 30Mb for?
I too remember my first PC (a home-built no-name clone) and its 20MB
drive. It cost $200. That was $10 per MB back then. Quite a difference
in prices these days.
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Kirk Bubul
For Christmas 1986 I got my first hard drive, a Seagate 225 (20MB).
It was $400 installed.
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Ken Blake
The Seagate ST225 is exactly the same drive I was talking about. I got
mine in 1987. It was $200, but without installation.
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Gene E. Bloch
Well, I'm old, I guess. I got my first hard drive, a whopping 10MB, when
the price got reasonable at last - a mere $800.
Yesterday I bought a 4GB USB drive just to have one for sneaker net use,
and I carefully perused the shelf to find one for only $7
Never mind the change in hard drive cost/byte...
BTW, I still have an ST-225. I am using it for a doorstop - literally:
the door to this room tends to shut itself, thanks to gravity (no, not
the newsreader).
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Gene E. Bloch
"Allot" - you know, to meat out
Think of "a lot".