Greetings,

I got an eMail from iomega that offers external HDD at 25 cents per gigabyte ...

500 GBy USB 2.0 $122.45

750 GBy USB 2.0 $188.95

Enjoy ... 

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Martin

At that price I am looking at the 1.5TB one.

I see that viper is thinking,

At that price I am looking at the 1.5TB one.

Are you thinking of getting only 1 or getting a pair of them? 

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Martin

gumbles his annoyance at americans and their ability to get cheap hardware :tt2:

I was sorry to hear inshaala was upset and,

gumbles his annoyance at americans and their ability to get cheap hardware

I can't help with the pricing structure ... but [be quiet, be verry quiet] why not plan a visit ... and bring along a ... big ... empty ... suitcase. 

NYC has lots of good museums, as well. 

Please keep us advised of your travel plans ... [wink]

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Martin

By some odd coincidence, today's Tech Tip from Computer Geeks is related to this subject ...

Please read, "Tech Tip #155 - External Storage: Go Big or Don't Bother!"

BTW, the side banner on that page has some even better prices than the Iomega special that I noted to kick off this thread. 

HTH

Please comment ...

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Martin

Quote - gumbles his annoyance at americans and their ability to get cheap hardware :tt2:

Look here. Granted it's a few bucks more than the non-action price, but not all that much. I think it works out to US$12 more.

Urm - do you know the exchange rate? £90 is about $170-175...vs $122 that means they get it at 70% what i get it... and that is enough to grumble about in my book.

Umm the gwk/ travelex online currency converter gives me 155 US dollars for 90 pounds, but ofcourse your bank may think otherwise :(  You're looking at the action price. Normal price is 142 dollars. Just looking at the action price is not really fair, there's probably actions at UK based stores everyone else doesn't have much use for.
Iomega UK sells them for GBP 89.90 with free delivery.

urm on the travelex site i get just over $170 to my £90:

http://www.travelex.co.uk/uk/

Actions?  Stupid sale prices/rebates? Yeah we get them, but not that often, trust me when i say: the US gets electronic equipment a LOT cheaper than over here in the UK.  Only need to look at the release prices of major equipment (ipod, PS3, cameras etc) and compare it US vs UK. I doubt you will ever see the UK come up trumps (maybe a few close calls, but never cheaper in the UK)

I think i need to visit the US at some point and post the boxes and receipts back to the UK and put the gear in my luggage as Martin suggested ;)

I'm from the Netherlands where everything is expensive :( Gasoline is probably the most expensive in the world. So I know the feeling Rich. Seems like it's cheaper for me to change pounds to dollars than it is for you.

Here's another example on how we're getting screwed. The Apple IPhone (not that I want or need it), the US: $399, Germany €399. :blink: All they did was replace the $ with €. I.E. Americans pay €268, and we pay $594.

I think I'll join you in your grumbling :(

Hmm Yes I  do use a 500gb Iomega drive myself  beautifully made and very quiet too..

I bought in the Netherlands which believe it or not is cheaper than the UK at 100 euro for the drive.. Also Canon prices seem to be good due to the export depot for Europe being there.. Though like the UK and Shell being an anglo dutch company our petrol prices do seem absurd!!  

That is quite a rip-off Rinze. I guess we do have some things good over here. But I'll join in the grumble because I feel bad for the rest of ya...

I still remember when 200gb was a big number....
And flash drives were 128mb...

I remember when 400MB was a big hard drive...

I dont remember much about numbers but i remember using the "real" floppy disks (the 3.5" floppy's which are almost gone now arent exactly "floppy") to play genius games such as Monkey Island (Open cake - find file - use file with prison lock) and Prince of Persia (dont think i ever managed to beat jaffar in that coz it was so damned hard)!  I also remember having an IBM 256mhz with a built in Sega Megadrive - that was the top of the range stuff back then!

Ah the good ole days of computing... now they are talking about quantum computers and suchlike...

lol I remember when 16k was standard memory and I was in heaven with my BBC Micro and then my Atari and Amiga 2000

Oooh.. BBC Micro.. beige and brown with bright orange function keys.. those were the days.

My first go on a proper computer was programming a BBC to draw a line at junior school:

Line 1 Move 34,90
Line 2 Draw 16,60
Line 3 ... etc

Or something like that

Someone even managed to write a game, kinda like that annoying helicopter game where you have to not hit obstacles by increasing altitude with one button...

How times have changed!!!

Apple II Price List (June 1977) RAM
Complement Apple II
System Apple II
Board Only 4K $ 1,298.00 $ 598.00 8K 1,398.00 698.00 12K 1,498.00 798.00 16K 1,698.00 978.00 20K 1,778.00 1,078.00 24K 1,878.00 1,178.00 32K 2,158.00 1,458.00 36K 2,258.00 1,558.00 48K 2,638.00 1,938.00

As long as we're tripping down memory lane ...

I remember when an 80MBy PCMCIA (CardBus) was considered extraordinary!

Then again, the first computer I programmed had 5 misrosecond core memory
with 4096 words of 18 bits each ... the Lincoln Labs TX-0.  A 5 minute discussion
about the machine's workings  was enough information to kick off my lifelong
career.  BTW, the person explaining the TX-0 described what I later found to be
a von Neumann architecture computer ... without mentioning John von Neumann. 

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Martin

Ah, the good old days! I remember being the most popular boy in my class at school (for couple a weeks anyway, lol) 'cos I was the first one to get 'Elite' when it was released on the ZX Spectrum. Although we had beeb micro's at school I was allowed to take in my Spectrum for 'computer studies' lessons. I think I still have it kicking around in the loft somewhere along with an Atari ST and a couple of old PC's.

Yeah, I loved my Commodore VIC-20, played with it for many years before upgrading to the Commodore 64, which I had even longer and lots of cool games for (Archon, Ultimas I, II & III). I seem to remember being able to connect with BBSes with it, boy what a thrill! I remeber doing that for sure once we had a PC with the Intel 486 chip. Ahhh, memories...

... and viruses, spyware, malware and the like were just science fiction...

LOL, too true. William Gibson was indeed a visionary...

I noticed that astro66 mentioned,

viruses, spyware, malware and the like were just science fiction...

And that TwoPynts recognized that,

William Gibson was indeed a visionary...

But let us not forget John Varley's chilling story, "PRESS ENTER _"
... or "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (sort of about backups [grin]), ...

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Martin

LOL! ;']