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lol, are these people on crack?

"too large" making something unprobable?

"too expensive" for a government contract?

Where they hell were these people and what kind of technology were they exposed to in the 70's?

Let me tell you about my first personal floppy drive:

It was the size of a shoebox and cost $300 hundred fucking dollars!

Just look in a catalog from the 1980's under TRS-80 components--that's where I bought mine from.


I talked to my mom, who was a legal secretary during that time, and she remembers typing on a selectric.

Just who was buying these super-duper-expensive-miracle-water-producing-typewriters that made Big Blue, well, big? I'd have to wager it was large corporations and the military--just like all the other pork we pay for in the modern era.

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