I sold Data General MicroNova and Nova 3 computers that year. A 10MB rack-mountable hard drive contained a drawer of two 5MB 15-inch platters, one fixed and one removable. Two people were required to lift the 70-pound subsystems into the racks. At just $9,995.00 for that drive, we were able to offer a "breakthrough price" of "only" $1,000 per megabyte.
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I sold Data General MicroNova and Nova 3 computers that year. A 10MB rack-mountable hard drive contained a drawer of two 5MB 15-inch platters, one fixed and one removable. Two people were required to lift the 70-pound subsystems into the racks. At just $9,995.00 for that drive, we were able to offer a "breakthrough price" of "only" $1,000 per megabyte.
The new California computer security/privacy law referred to in the Business Week article is available here: http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/s b_1386_bill_20020926_chaptered.html