• Matt@netmonkey.tech
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    1 year ago

    LOL

    I remember looking at a computer catalog back in the late 80s when it cost $500 to buy a 20 MB hard drive. Oh, that didn’t include the controller, so it cost even more money. I remember buying $200 worth of RAM at Best Buy in the mid-90s. It was $50 for a 1 MB SIMM.

    Today we can buy 60 inch televisions here in the USA for for hundreds of dollars, which would have costs thousands over ten years ago.

    I don’t predict to know the future with prices of the Vision Pro, but I expect cheaper options at some point.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah. I remember my friend and I running out to buy hard drives when the price dropped to $1/MB. We never thought they’d get that cheap.

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        1 year ago

        Do you happen to recall about when that happened?

        I remember buying a 250 MB Seagate hard drive sometimes when I was in high school in the mid-90s, and I think it cost something like $250, but I’m really not sure.

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          1 year ago

          Man, I barely remember what I ate for breakfast…

          But it had to be somewhere in the 1988-1992 range. I’m trying to remember if I was still in high school or in college by that point.

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            1 year ago

            hahaha Sorry for the tough question. That time range sounds about right to me when I bought that hard drive I’m thinking about.