I recall paying $16,000 for a 67MB hard drive (a “Winchester”) sometime around 1980-1. That’s $240/MB. Today you can buy a TB drive for about $100 at retail. That’s 15,000 times the storage at 1/160 the price.
— Bernard Yomtov in 2010
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I recall paying $16,000 for a 67MB hard drive (a “Winchester”) sometime around 1980-1. That’s $240/MB. Today you can buy a TB drive for about $100 at retail. That’s 15,000 times the storage at 1/160 the price.
— Bernard Yomtov in 2010
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