Monster IDE Drives

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quoth Kurt Wall:

| Good grief. I don't need a $1,200 disk drive, although I could
| probably use the disk space.

i still have, in a box someplace, the 340-meg micropolis i bought on 
special sale in 1989 for $650 because, i decided, storage would never 
be this cheap again. (also the 20-meg hard card i bought for just about 
that much in 1988, and the 5-meg full height original ibm in an 
original pc that cost God-knows-how-much.)

| I suppose "monster" depends on one's frame of reference.  To wit:
| I drive Ford Focus, so my neighbor's Crown Victoria looks like
| whale, but, next to the Hummer H2, my neighbor's Crown Victoria looks
| like a minnow.

in some research this week i happened upon the "nexus," a proposal nasa 
was considering in the 1960s as a followup to the saturn V. (this after 
the eight-engine "nova" had been ruled out.) the "nexus" would have 
stood nearly 600 feet high -- too big to build in the v.a.b. -- and 
would at its base have been 262 feet in diameter. and one imagines the 
downblast from it would have moved the east coast of florida to the 
outskirts of orlando. something like an atlas or a titan would have 
looked like a bottle rocket next to it.
-- 
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