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Many years ago the software house I was at bought an external 20Mb drive to connect to our MP/M machine for £2,000.
Now 25,000 times as much storage costs 1/33.3 of the price, so an increase of 833,333 times as much storage for £1, ignoring inflation. An increase of 73% per year.My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostMany years ago the software house I was at bought an external 20Mb drive to connect to our MP/M machine for £2,000.
Now 25,000 times as much storage costs 1/33.3 of the price, so an increase of 833,333 times as much storage for £1, ignoring inflation. An increase of 73% per year.
What is the clock speed in a new dev machine these days? And what does one cost?My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.Comment
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Originally posted by RichardCranium View PostMany years ago the software house I was at bought an external 20Mb drive to connect to our MP/M machine for £2,000.
Now 25,000 times as much storage costs 1/33.3 of the price, so an increase of 833,333 times as much storage for £1, ignoring inflation. An increase of 73% per year.
£5k for 2Mb.
When they wore out, it cost £2k to replace them.
Could have saved £1k if we'd realised the difference between single sided, dual sided and drives that could cope with both formats.
It was a neat trick moving the index hole on the diskette so that dual sided diskettes wouldn't work at all in a SS drive & vice versa.Comment
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Afternoon allComment
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The ZeitGhostMSFClock(tm and patent pending) is now showing the time, and the date.
I is amazed.
It's only taken 2 months to get this far.Comment
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