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On a more serious note, I wonder what the size of Windows looks like when compared to the amount of storage you could buy for $200 at each point
by bluedino 7y ago
On a more serious note, I wonder what the size of Windows looks like when compared to the amount of storage you could buy for $200 at each point
- ghaff 7y agoThe price of storage has pretty much plummeted compared to the size of Windows. A quick glance at a magazine shows that in 1987, a few years before Windows 3.0, a 20MB hard drive was about $300 (in 1987 dollars).
- Retric 7y agoIt depends on what your comparing. Win 3.0 came out March 1990, which puts HDD at 4$/MB or 50MB for 200$. https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm https://jcmit.net/diskprice.htm So 6MB win 3.0 should be ~12% of a hypothetical 200$ disk. Now HDD prices dropped a lot, but high end PC’s used SSD’s in 2009. A 120GB SSD cost ~250$ when windows 7 came out, which is ~13% of the drive. Inflation pushes these further apart, but $200 in 1990 is only $324.15 in 2009.
- ghaff 7y agoFair enough. Though that's probably on the early side for most people to have put an SSD in their computer. (Inflation also means the 1990 number is also about 50% higher relative to 2009.) TBH, I probably spend as much on disk drives as I ever did but that's because of the redundancy I can afford, all the media, and because I just leave a lot of stuff laying around because it's easier than pruning.
- TylerE 7y agoThese days less than $300 (close to $200 in some cases) will buy you 2TB of SSD.
- zamadatix 7y agohttps://jcmit.net/disk2015.htm https://jcmit.net/disk2015.htm