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On Dec 12, 6:59 pm, clifto wrote:
My first hard drive was $30,000.00 per gigabyte. (Specifically, it was
$600 for 20 megabytes. Dreaming of a gigabyte was a cerebral exercise.)

THIS is a hard drive

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/storage.asp

That's what they say, but it sure looks like drum storage to me.

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