> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cornelius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 11:05 a.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: OT - Small hard drive required
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> >> small hard drive? i remember when that was huge,
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> >More than huge!. I recall paying $1500 for a 212 Mb hard drive.
> >What would $1500 buy you in storage now?
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> I remember when computers had an absolute maximum of 4 KB of
> storage, and
> that would have cost much, much more than $1,500. No hard drives!
>
> Any advance?
OK
In 1704 some native american indians decided to build a rudimentary counting
device consisting of a case (some cloth) a form of RAM (beads) and a early
form of optical communications (mirrors).
For this they transferred ownership of the state of Masschussetts.
