Re: IBM announces new hard drive

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 13:18:40 EST


uhh.. :-)

how many do you want..??
or
how many do you think you NEED..??

heheh...

David Goldman wrote:

> IBM (NYSE: IBM) said in a statement its 7,200 rpm Deskstar 75GXP drive
> for desktop computers held 75 gigabytes of data, more than 10 times
> the capacity of drives found in the average home personal computer.
>
> A single one of the new drives can now store the equivalent of up to
> 159 music compact discs or "the data contained in a stack of documents
> 20 times taller than the Washington Monument," the statement said. The
> monument is just over 555 feet tall. Twenty times that height is
> 11,100 feet, or 2.1 miles.
>
> Hey, Bill... Please let me know when these become available for my
> Thinkpad 380Z. ;-)
>
> --
> David Goldman

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Happy trails...

** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_gate.net


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