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  • #16
    Originally posted by red92s View Post
    Newegg.com has a couple in the $120 range. Not "under $100" . . . but it won't be long.

    I must be dating myself to say that my first computer (gift from my parents when I started college in 2001) had a 40 gig HD. My dad did say that the first computer he bought had a HD equivalent to 100 large floppy disks and thinking "how could anyone ever fill up 100 floppy disks".
    I remember the hand me down laptop i used in college had no hd, but had 2 floppy drives. Was so much nicer than just one. After booting off the dos disk you could have a wordperfect disk in drive a and a save disk in drive b.

    desktops with small HD and windows were starting to become common around that time, as i recall 1000 got you a really cheap POS. anyone remember packard bell?

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Broken Arrow View Post
      I still have a hard time finding ANYWHERE that would sell 1 TB for less than $100 right now.
      Originally posted by red92s View Post
      Newegg.com has a couple in the $120 range. Not "under $100" . . . but it won't be long.
      This one was $129.99 minus 2 different $20 rebates, bringing the final cost to $89.99. There was also a shipping rebate from UPS so even the shipping was free.
      Steve

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      • #18
        I want to be able to have the backups automated so that at the end of the day when I turn the computer off it backs up before completely shutting down. Also I want it to back up EVERYTHING in an easy to restore format.
        We did some backups before and all it did was backup certain folders. We lost all our emails and some other important files.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Johansen8 View Post
          I want to be able to have the backups automated so that at the end of the day when I turn the computer off it backs up before completely shutting down. Also I want it to back up EVERYTHING in an easy to restore format.
          We did some backups before and all it did was backup certain folders. We lost all our emails and some other important files.
          You can set this up to happen with Norton Ghost. I don't think you want to back up the whole computer daily. I would back up "My Documents" and your e-mail daily but the whole computer weekly.

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