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Re:What you can learn from old hard drive adverts by sp332 on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:04PM (#26599199)
Gibson said later that 80 GB would obviously have been too small to be really impressive, but no one called it out. https://mobile.twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/13396882971660...
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Re:What you can learn from old hard drive adverts by bombcar on Friday March 26, 2021 @10:47PM (#26599451)
Part of the problem is likely nobody would understand what “terabyte” was an petabyte would have just sounded wrong
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