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Default Circuit City Kaput

BAR wrote:
hk wrote:
Eisboch wrote:

"hk" wrote in message
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If I am not mistaken, my iPod has a 50 or 50 gig hard drive. You'd
have to buy 30 2 gig $10 SD cards to match the capacity. That's a
lot more than I paid for my iPod.

Plus, SD cars are small. If you are always swapping them out to get
to the music on another card, well...


You know, I think I am still hung up from the old days of having a
PAL 286 computer with a whopping 40Mb hard drive. I became very
frugal with disk space, saving all my documents on floppy disk so the
hard drive had room for programs. Its a habit I still have, even
though my newest computer has a 320Gb drive plus an additional backup
drive. I keep it squeaky clean of misc. stuff that I really don't need.

I guess I can store some stuff without worrying about running out of
space.

Eisboch


My first PC had only a floppy drive. It wasn't until I got my hands on
an S-100 bus computer that I encountered a hard drive, but I think it
was only 20megs...


Yeah right? What processor was your S-100 bus computer running?



Compupro '286, so it was running an Intel 80286. Hell this was more than
20 years ago, fella, when you were still puking beer into your jockey
shorts after standing guard outside the portipotty at the marine barracks.

Ever see a Compupro? Big, heavy box.