fractaltiger's Journal: More Hardware...

As if we didn't have enough trinkets, we got a Firewire card on wednesday. I just tested it and it did work. I captured about 20 seconds of DV into a monstrously big 50MB file. In avi format.

On another topic, I'm trying to find a cheap 20MB [oops! that should say 20GB!! :) ] hard drive. The guy at J&R says "they don't make'em" no more. I'm stuck with 40MB[ ^H^HGB] suckers. I just need something to boot but harddrive.com and maxtor and ebay (ugh, as if I'd ever buy an used HD!) don't have what I need. A mere 5200rpm drive of my small need for capacity still costs about $70 at hardrive.com. What the heck happened? Hardware prices are staying so high! And I thought this was only an issue with TI calculators. I bought a 40GB drive 1.5 years ago for $70, and I can't buy anything at all at that price, including that same drive in some cases. Bleh.

Well, I'm looking for a sale on CD-R's as well. The cheapest I have found is 100pk/$24. I've seen 19 dollar rebates on *that* already low price. Will keep waiting for that kinda sale to happen again, or maybe I'll forget that it will ever occur again.