Replying to a message of Matt Mc_Carthy to Roy J. Tellason:

 MM> 21 May 2003, 20:01, Roy J. Tellason (1:270/615), wrote to Leonard
 MM> Erickson:

 MM> Hi Roy.

 LE>>> Well, I paid $300 for a new 40 meg drive once upon a toime.

 RJT>> I paid that much for a *20M* drive once.  Still have it,  too,  
 RJT>> and it still works,  with the machine I got it for -- running 
 RJT>> CP/M!  Only thing is,  the box won't boot off that drive,  you 
 RJT>> need a boot floppy to get it going.  I sure hope that WD-1000 
 RJT>> controller card is still okay.

 LE>>> and more recently, I paid that for a 40 *gig* drive. Now I paid 
 LE>>> less than that for a 200 gig drive.

 RJT>> Heh.

 RJT>> Ain't technology wonderful?  :-)

 MM> Gotta agree there!  My first 15 Meg, with R/S employee discount and on
 MM> SALE, was $1100.  Makes me cry to think how many Gigs that would buy
 MM> today!

If you *really* want a good cry, check out the retail price tag on
the Heathkit H-67 hard drive kit for their H-89 computer. 110 lbs, about as
wide and deep as a PC/AT and about 8.5 inches high.  A whopping *TEN* MB on
a drive that had two eight inch diameter platters.  The unit includes an
eight inch floppy disk drive to do backups to.  A measly $5,999.99, in 1979
dollars.

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