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  • moo · 3 years ago
    By the look of the biceps on that person it must have been heavy too :)
  • seventoes · 3 years ago
    HAHA! Thats hilarious.. 40MB... haaaa...
  • Hangman · 3 years ago
    What gives with the 6GB drive for $400? I can get a 200 GB drive for $110 Canadian got to be even less in the U.S.
  • Riquez · 3 years ago
    I'll wager that would be the worlds smallest Hard Drive, so small you need to have a magnifying glass to see it.
  • nerf · 3 years ago
    i had a 20 meg hard drive put in my mac 512 in 1986, cost me $1200. also had them hard wire 4megs of ram with 256k ram chips. we wondered at the time how in the world we were going to use 20megs storage.

    bring back mac system 7. fit on a floppy!
  • MarkD · 3 years ago
    I can go one better than that. In 1976, the world's largest air conditioning manufacturer had a very good year. They wrote two five million dollar checks. One for a business jet. The second was for five megabytes of memory for their IBM 370-168 MP mainframe. The memory came from Control Data Corporation, because the real IBM memory was even more expensive...