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    #207401
    Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
    £60.

    It comes pre-formatted as NTFS and has one of those double-ended USB leads where the second lead is for extra power, if required.

    It's dead slim, and I didn't realise it comes with a leather pocket.
    Hmm.. I might buy one to hang off the NAS drive

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      #207402
      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.

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        #207403
        Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
        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.
        The PCs we were using back then were 5 to 10 MHz jobbies (8086s I think) and cost what? £1,000?

        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.

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          #207404
          Quiet day today!
          Si posse, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem

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            #207405
            Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
            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.
            Bought a dual 8" floppy drive for a General Automation mini.

            £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.

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              #207406
              Afternoon all
              "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

              Norrahe's blog

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                #207407
                Afternoon all

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                  #207408
                  I've got to go through an installation this afternoon - It could be painful

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                    #207409
                    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.

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                      #207410
                      Afternoon

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