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So much for Canon 'antiques' as investments

Started Jun 17, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP Lanidrac Veteran Member • Posts: 8,069
Re: OP lives in Canada

f64manray wrote:

Jim Cassatt wrote:

Hey your guys are just youngsters. I remember my first 40 Megabyte drive. Cost me $500.00. In 1991 I was a project officer on a large database contract. The contractor needed my approval for large purchases. One item he needed my approval for was 10,000 US$ for a one gigabyte hard drive. At that time people were concerned about how we were going to handle terabytes of data.

I remember when I bought a external Jazz drive that used 1 gig cartridges. My god, it doesn't get any better than this I thought. My computer had a built in zip drive that could handle 100 meg cartridges.

I've got a stack of 10 x 100MB Zip disks "real cheap". Cobwebs included.

Loading/re-loading Windows via 10 X 3.5" floppies was "fun" too.

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Being a hoser is aboot being respectful, eh?

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