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Larry Larry is offline
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Peter Hendra wrote in
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I still get amazed by hard drive size/capacity and price. I bought my


There is a receipt in my files for a 33MB (not GB) Tulin full-height hard
drive, the absolute largest drive available for the IBM PCXT at the time.
I can't believe I paid $US1995.00 for it...(c; That was serious money back
then! It would be akin to paying $US18,000 for a miniscule drive, today.

Certainly glad computer stuff DIDN'T inflate like cars/boats/houses...(c;

I have this awful image in my mind of a pair of boat shoes sticking out of
the top of a dumpster behind a pub collecting bottled...hee hee.

Larry
--
I have this little "Talking Clock" on my computer desk. It has an alarm
function that makes the sound of a rooster crowing at dawn that just went
off because I must have pressed the wrong button. My blue and gold macaw,
"Roger-Roger", was most impressed! He's still calling it at the top of his
lungs!

Living with poultry, at times, is a riot!
They're just snakes with feathers, you know....(c;