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Well at least there wasn't any alliteration. I'm trying to quit. I attend AA meetings.

Yeah, you guessed it - alliteration anonymous.


Don't get me started. MLC is a bad influence.

BTW, thanks Mike H for the link. I ordered the 4GB version. I'll start with one then add another when there's more change in my pocket goin' ching a ling a ling. Hopefully the HD won't make that sound.

P

Phil O wrote:BTW, thanks Mike H for the link. I ordered the 4GB version. I'll start with one then add another when there's more change in my pocket goin' ching a ling a ling. Hopefully the HD won't make that sound.
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I hope you got a great deal on that 4GB version.

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I thought is was a good deal. $100 That's $25 per TB. Mike is right, it will pay for itself.

Phil

Thank you MLC for spotting my error.

Phil O wrote:I thought is was a good deal. $100 That's $25 per gig. Mike is right, it will pay for itself.

Phil

Um... that’s $25 per TB. My old Atari shoebox HD was 20 MB for about $250 (in 1989). And who could ever need such a massive amount of storage? Lol

I stand corrected, sir. I will make the appropriate edit.

Phil O wrote:I stand corrected, sir. I will make the appropriate edit.

No! You were naughty and must be severely punished.

Phil O wrote:[edited]
Thank you MLC for spotting my error.

It was I who spotted your error first, but I was far too subtle in my response. (Just sayin').

stubbsonic wrote:

Phil O wrote:[edited]
Thank you MLC for spotting my error.

It was I who spotted your error first, but I was far too subtle in my response. (Just sayin').

You must BOTH be punished, now! And then you must FACE!

Phil O wrote:[edited]

I thought is was a good deal. $100 That's $25 per TB. Mike is right, it will pay for itself.

Phil

Thank you MLC for spotting my error.

Id say thats a deal. I paid about 3x that for a 4TB My Book drive about 3 years ago heh. Ill be upgrading it to the 8GB model soon and still only paying half what I paid for the first one!

stubbsonic wrote:It was I who spotted your error first, but I was far too subtle in my response. (Just sayin').

Damn! You know, I just got my DNA ancestry report back. It said I'm 100% stupid. Do I get the award for the most screw-ups in a single thread?

Yes, I must face.

I have everything up and running. Thank you all for your feedback and suggestions. I didn't realize how cheap the large spinners had gotten. This was indeed the best solution for my workflow.

Phil

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

Phil O wrote:I thought is was a good deal. $100 That's $25 per gig. Mike is right, it will pay for itself.

Phil

Um... that’s $25 per TB. My old Atari shoebox HD was 20 MB for about $250 (in 1989). And who could ever need such a massive amount of storage? Lol

In 1986, I paid $1,000 for a 20MB SCSI drive from Peripheraland and $1,200 for a SCSI tape backup from the same company for my new Mac Plus. The drive had a 1 yr warranty and broke down after a year and a half while the tape backup never worked properly. Fortunately, I also backed up to floppies so, when when the drive went to hell, I had only lost 14 invoices that I could restore from the hard copies — I used a 3-part invoice in my ImageWriter II.

Funny, I don’t recall what I bought to replace the failed drive except that it was 40MB, cost less and lasted as long as that Plus. La Cie, perhaps?

mikehalloran wrote:In 1986, I paid $1,000 for a 20MB SCSI drive from Peripheraland and $1,200 for a SCSI tape backup from the same company for my new Mac Plus.

I waited a while and got a 650 MB SCSI for the Atari Falcon for $500. I knew it was the last drive I'd ever need because you could fit an entire CD on it. Backups were easy because I had a utility that put 2.88M on a 1.44M floppy and one that split backups across multiple copies. One problem was you could hear the drive mechanism in the recordings. Another was that it didn't improve the music.