Strange the things that stick in your memory. APC magazine from mid-2003, Lindows OS Live CD on the cover, and somewhere in the text inside the corresponding ar

Strange the things that stick in your memory. APC magazine from mid-2003, Lindows OS Live CD on the cover, and somewhere in the text inside the corresponding article, “—pair it with a cheap-as-chips 128 MB USB disk for $70—” (that’s Australian dollars; and the wording may be inexact). I was always curious what kind of fish-and-chips shops they were going to where chips cost $70. And yeah, now twenty years later you can get a thousand times the capacity for a tenth of the inflation-adjusted price, and it’s maybe 10–100× faster for vaguely comparable units and loads.