jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:45:07PM -0700, Miles Nordin wrote:
> > Maybe the dropping cost of hardware can be used as an excuse for giving
> > up:  single-disc CD players cost, what, $20-$40 these days, and hard disc
> > space approaching $0.01/MB means that enough space to hold an entire
> > CD-ROM will soon cost you about $6.50.
> I was talking about the good old music CD's.. and I don't think it's
> cheap enough to put 100 or 200 CD's on a hard disk yet :-)

The 37Gig 3.5" x 1" high IBM Deskstar is selling for just under $300
mailorder.  My music CD's are about ~400Megs (before converting to
MP3).  One can fit just under 100 CD's on that disk.  Thats pretty
competitive with the 100-CD changers, and the seek time is a heck of a
lot better. ;-)

-wolfgang
-- 
       Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com>
		    http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/
DGPS signals via the Internet  http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/gps/dgps-ip.html