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Dyak80 t1_j9lkh32 wrote

Reply to comment by FaceTheSun in The new generations will never understand the pain for paying $100 for a 1GB flash drive by prettypistolgg

That is just a lot, can you explain me why was that so expensive?

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FaceTheSun t1_j9llioy wrote

It was in about 1987... the computer had only a few MB to begin with.

There was no such thing as USB at that time and a high capacity removable storage (floppy disc) had maybe 1.4 MB !

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So things are a bit different these days.

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