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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY:  486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
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References: <21k903$3q4@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 00:59:41 GMT
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In article <CA0zHp.CqK@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
ralph@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Ralph Becker-Szendy) writes: 
>In article <PCG.93Jul12003233@decb.aber.ac.uk> pcg@aber.ac.uk 
>(Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
>>Get at least 1GB. The cost per MB on disks >= 1GB is much lower than the
>>cost per MB for disks with lower capacities. A 1GB costs around $1050
>>mail order... 
>Not completely true. I have seen 200MB for <<$300 recently.

My hardware price expert friends tell me that no one seems to want
drives smaller than 300M, so the prices for them are falling through
the floor.  A coworker got a 250M IDE hard disk for $300 recently, so
I suspect that the smaller drives are almost free.

And to think I paid $450 for a 40M ST251-1 a few years ago for my DEC
Rainbow.

Warner
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