Re: [Thinkpad] Off Topic RE: Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?

The first personal hard drive I ever had hands-on experience with was for
(gasp!) a TRS-80 Model I about 24 years ago. 5MB for only $5000. Woohoo!!!

I guess hard drive prices have come down a little since then. ;-)

-- 
David Goldman
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, David Reid wrote:
>I still have a spec sheet laying around here somewhere, where I had spec a
>desktop pc for our office and the order was on hold awaiting the NEW and
>WHOPPIN', 750MB hard drive!!!  Naturally, we were thinking "hey, with that
>size, we wouldn't need a new hdd for years!
>
>We were also holding out for a 486 processor... Ooooooo.
>
>My God, I just realized... That wasn't that long ago! 10, 12 years ago?
>
>I can now be found, every day, with 3.25gb of storage in usb thumb drives in
>my left pants pocket.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On
>Behalf Of Matt
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:12 PM
>To: Thinkpad list
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Fujitsu 200GB notebook HD?
>
>
>While nothing is equal, and miniaturization does increase costs, I recently
>bought a 500Gb Seagate hdd, (full size), for $259, less a $40 rebate.
>
>Used an external drive holder with USB 2.0 connection and Voila!
>We have backup space again.
>
>Is it just me or do larger hard drives fill faster than small ones?
>Not that I ever delete anything.......LOL
>
>Matt
>
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