jeff wrote in
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Larry wrote:
Y'all can try to get them to honor the sale......but as I went to
BestBuy to get my $24+ coupon discount, I looked to see how many
drives were left.

THE PRICE HAS BEEN INCREASED BACK TO $279.95 FOR THIS HARD DRIVE.

Sorry if you missed it.....(c;

Yup ... and that will probably be the cheapest price ever for storage
- from now on the price will only go up!

Many years ago when I worked with NASA I got a tour of a facility in
Greenbelt. It was a disk farm with hundreds of washing machine sized
drives, each about 200 Megabytes, for a total of about half a
Terabyte.
It contained all of the telemetry from every scientific satellite
for
about six months. Now that much storage can fit in your pocket!


At Cornell University, way back when..., I was honored by being allowed
to peek into a room containing a huge IBM DRUM DRIVE. It stored many KB,
er, ah, temporarily, until a truck drove by on the street
outside....which is why we were not allowed to actually WALK into the
room! Even the massive granite block it was bolted to could save it. It
brought new meaning to "crash"...

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ex.../650_ph09.html



Larry
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Search youtube for "Depleted Uranium"
The ultimate dirty bomb......