Re: [Hampshire] The Price of Hard Drives

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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] The Price of Hard Drives
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:33:29 +0000
Samuel Penn <sam@???> wrote:

> On Sunday 06 November 2011 19:20:53 Rob Malpass wrote:
> > I'm building a new PC and doing so from a (presumably Novatech)
> > barebones bundle. I am truly amazed at the prices of 3.5"
> > internal hard drives. I've had a look at Novatech, ebuyer and even
> > PC World and for half a terabyte it's looking like £80.
>
> That's still several thousand times cheaper than when I bought my
> first one.


so true, I got a 10 meg drive on a PC expansion card for my original
model IBM PC and it cost well over £200 (possibly over £300) in 1995.

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John Lewis
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