Price/Performance of time

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

Tonight I bought TWO 1 Terabyte external disk drives, that
transfer information at a rate of 300 Mbytes per second, for a total
cost of $283.

I remember that RP06 disk drives which I purchased for Bell Labs in the
1980 to 1983 time frame held about 256 Mbytes and cost $23K
apiece (and that was when $23K was a lot of money).

8000 times the capacity for 1/80th of the price.

So it goes.

md
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