> PRR "wins" for highest price per megabyte!
It came to me at $15. It was 5.25" full height (3" tall), in a case, with a controller, which only worked with the pre-IBM PC Tandy machines.
Of course I stripped it and found a standard Shugart-interface drive, worked with IBM and clone XT/AT controllers. I think I even formatted it RLL for a whopping 19MB.
> Cheap storage has made us forget how to use DELETE.
Disagree. At least _I_ rarely find it worthwhile to "clean". If I truly delete something I need it may be major headache and time/trouble. So I have to think about every file. Say I can think-about 10 files a minute, 600 files an hour. Say an hour of my time is worth $10. Cost to delete is $0.016/file. Say 500GB (500,000MB) costs $100, $0.0002 per megabyte. Files under 83MB are "not worth deleting", it's cheaper to store than to think/delete.
While I have not done this computation recently, I _do_ occasionally skim for those ENORMOUS files which sneak in. ISO files for disappointing O/Ses (leeenux, lupu, Win7beta). Porno films that got old fast. Core-dumps. SPICE DAT files.