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  It cost $4,315 back then (in today's dollars).
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  Nowadays, a 1.44MB one would cost about $10 per pack of 10.
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  It would be about $5 to buy a pack of 10 blank discs.
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  IBM's 9345 hard disk drive is introduced. Codenamed "Sawmill," it was the first hard disk drive to use magneto-resistive heads.
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  It would have been $12 to buy one blank minidisc back then.
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  A modern 64GB card would cost about $50.
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  A pack of 50 DVDs nowadays would cost about $15.
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  A modern 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive would be about $60.
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  A 1GB drive in 2001 would have cost $360.
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  A pack of 25 25GB discs nowadays would be about $25
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  A hard drive of similar capacity today would be about $35.
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  A 512GB consumer NVME SSD would cost around $350.
