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Posted by GMAN on 11/12/06 22:23
In article <jc5fl2hpnstoe72mqf4qoa6mob8vkpqt1s@4ax.com>, trusso11783@yahoo.com wrote:
>>Even in its day, who the hell used 100 MB zip disks when almost every other
>>medium was larger. By the time Zip's came out, we already had rewriteable CDRW
>
>>at 650MB
>
>Are you kidding? In 1995, I bought a Zip Drive for $199 or so. The 100MB discs
> were $15. That was a
>great alternative to expensive hard disks. The first 1GB drives were $1000! In
> 1996, I bought my
>first CD-R drive and it cost me $600 and blanks were $10 each, which turned
> into coasters real fast
>after the slightest hiccup from the computer. ZIPS were a great medium to use
> during the transition
>from expensive hard drives to affordable CDRom Drives. Heck, in 2000 I
> purchased a 10x HP CD RW
>Writer for $200 and that was a DEAL!
>
>You may be getting your years mixed up.
>
>Tony
OK
100MB disks = 15$
650MB disks = 10$
To get the same storage as 1 CDRW you'd pay near $95 for the same in zip
carts at the time . Cant help it that your PC at the time was a "piece"
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