Nunc est bibendum! Being

Submitted by Asterixx on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 4:57am

Nunc est bibendum!

Being priced like a new car wouldn't surprise me. I've got a 1983 Tandy Computer catalogue that features a 4 megabyte extrenal hard drive (it's as big as a modern desktop computer) for $8000, which would have been just about the price of a new car back in '83. A cheap car, sure, but a car. The top-line TRS-80 Model 16 computer itself was $13,000 with a 512kb memory upgrade and two 8" floppies...

 

I can also remember the first plasma TV I ever saw, hanging on the wall at a local TV/stereo shop, with a $20k price tag hanging from it. 26" screen. Then there's the $1000 DVD burners, the $500 16MB MP3 players, etc.

You want to be bleeding edge you're gonna pay 'til it bleeds. In a few years SSD's will be cheaper than magnetic drives. I'll patiently wait 'til then...

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if this is not a joke...

Submitted by jvc08 on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 11:36pm

this thing must be very expensive. i probably wont be able to afford it. but it's good to know that such technology exist.

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April fool's or

Submitted by Gameaholic1337 on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 10:05pm

April fool's or a one up to OCZ's Z-drive seen at CeBIT?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/

If it's real then where on the drive would you hide the lojack device?

 

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Fake it's an april fools

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 6:37pm

Fake it's an april fools joke article. I'm sure of it. I don't trust any articles posted on the 1st of April.

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Hmmm

Submitted by zstadt on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 5:15pm

I'd only have to sell both kidneys, half of my stomach, and my first born child to afford it!

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out with IDE

Submitted by bingojubes on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 4:48pm

and possibly SATA, as well then.

that looks so fake, but a well-designed photoshop. i bet the next piece of information would be that it could be QUAD-fire or QUAD-SLI...depending on company. would that thing be still limited to FSB on some boards?

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Holy crap!

Submitted by soccer1105 on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 4:13pm

So with all this April Fools day stuff going on today, I honestly am not sure if this is real or not...  But, if this thing is for real, I just have to say:  HOLY CRAP!  That's insane!

WANT!

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Only if you could boot from

Submitted by mlee19 on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 3:50pm

Only if you could boot from it..

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