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Long ago I did some purchasing for a software engineering concern. One vendor offered a cut-rate screaming deal on a ONE GIGABYTE HARD DRIVE. It could be mine for a mere two hundred and ninety dollars.
Now I have something that holds thirtyfold what that dinosaur would, and it set me back ten bucks. I should use it more often in case things go Kablooie.
One with Clay, Image and Text 
Love that artwork, Gary.
Oh, they go kablooie, all right. You can take that to the bank. I’ve just spent the better part of the last two and a half days trying to get my computer back up to speed. (Had a major and catastrophic crash). Thankfully, I had nearly everything backed up. There were lots of irreplaceables on that hard drive. AND I had to use my recovery disks, which of course meant erasing the entire hard drive with the new stuff–and then there’s the gazillion layers of updates that Windows installs.
There are lots of backup choices now, Donald–I saw on TV one outfit offers to back up everything you have, automatically, for 80 bucks a year. Look for that to go down as well–or some other Whole New Ball Game…
Hi Garry,
My wife’s father bought 64 meg of memory for the company computer sometime in the early eighties, it cost 64 000$. A few years ago, I showed him a 64 meg SD card, and we were both amazed. Today, I see a 64 gigs card on Amazon is 60$. That’s 1000 times more memory for 1 000 times less money.
Still, a month ago, I managed to lose one year of data for my Quicken accounts program because I didn’t do the back up on time.
Sigh. Next year i’ll be perfect.
Michel Lamontagne
The acrostiche are fun, clever and lovely. My spell checker doesn’t know the word though, but Google thinks I got the spelling Wright.
Next year we’ll all be perfect, Michel. So we say. 🙂 And, yes, what an amazing cost implosion!