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Re: It's 1997! (found an ad)

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From	not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject	Re: It's 1997! (found an ad)
Newsgroups	rocksolid.shared.general
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Date	2025-02-15 09:03 +1000
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Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:37:31 -0600, Byrl Raze Buckbriar wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 13:03:17 +0000
>> Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 3 1/2-inch full-height
>>> Fast SCSI-2 Interface with Single-Ended Drivers/Receivers
>>> Retail: $1499.00
>>> Model: 3243 AV internal 3.5 HH
>>> Formatted Capacity: 4,295mb
>>> Bytes per Sector:   512
>>> Sectors per Track:  Variable
>>> Cylinders:          3,956
>> 
>> I remember when computer equipment was expensive. A floppy drive
>> was about $350 when I first learned about computers. In today's
>> dollars that would be like $1500 or more.
> 
> Same here. I remember trying to decide whether I really needed
> that big new har drive.

I decided I didn't. I'm posting this now from a slightly older PC
with a 2,111MB HDD. IDE though, not SCSI.

> Now I just buy what I want :)

Like with this old PC (bought second-hand from a school), I
find the gear people are getting rid of more than sufficient. I
recently upgraded to using a 500GB USB HDD for storing videos,
bought second-hand at a market for $5 sometime pre-COVID. I did
keep one 4TB SATA HDD from a used NAS I parted out a couple of
years ago, selling the other drives from it on Ebay, but what do
I need all that storage for?

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It's 1997! (found an ad) Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> - 2025-02-08 13:03 +0000
  Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net> - 2025-02-14 11:37 -0600
    Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> - 2025-02-14 11:56 -0700
      Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-15 09:03 +1000
        Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> - 2025-02-14 16:18 -0700
        Re:  Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) prysm1 <prysm1@cw.qc.to> - 2025-02-15 15:09 +0000
          Re:  Re: It's 1997! (found an ad) not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-02-16 08:00 +1000

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