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Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB, and cost $450. Storage and RAM are crazy cheap these days. Consider that the software used to control the Command Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K of memory. 2 blocks of ROM (24k and 32k each) and 1 block of RAM (4k). 

Doug



---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote: 
> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one  
> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I  
> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.
> 
> Ron VP
> 
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:
> 
> > Core memory, I bet!
> >
> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when  
> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital  
> > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp  
> > center.  A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked  
> > him something about the memory modules.  He didn't know the answer,  
> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one  
> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!!  And  
> > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...
> >
> >
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