DIGGING THROUGH a treasure trove of legacy technology magazines, it's remarkaable to discover that 40 years ago computer storage cost about 20 million times more than it does today. Here's a prediction from the December 1981 edition of Creative Computing: "The cost for 128 kilobytes of memory will fall below $100 in the near future". They got that one right.
A Little Technology -- "Cost of Hard Drive Space"