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To: Gary G. Withrow who wrote (100919)	3/16/2000 12:10:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Gary - Re: "The 75GB model is 7200 RPM. The platter base is glass rather than aluminum for greater stability. Did you ever imagine that much capacity for your PC? " Glass substrates ? Geez....thin film disk makers have been working on these since 1985/1986 - and it took 15 years to get into production ! As for 75 GigaBytes - I would have never believed it. I remember ALMOST buying a 5 Megabyte Corvus (?) hard drive (I think Seagate was the actual drive manufacturer) for the SALE price of $1800 at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1983 ! That was before the PC-XT was introduced and all hard drives at that time were "non-standard". That $1800 will probably buy 3 or 4 or 5 of those 75 GigaByte drives today ! Paul

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