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Re: Taking shortcuts
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:29:25 GMT
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> Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a
> cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each...
> Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good
> PC seemed to always cost 3000 USD... I think that's going down, at last.
My third computer had two floppy disk drives holding 113.75KB of data each. This
was in 1979. Each drive cost $600.
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| (...) Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each... Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good PC seemed to (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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