Found a receipt. Noted for posterity. In 1993 I paid $1225 + tax for a one gigabyte hard drive. 1993 At the time I was launching my only mildly successful career with Steve Hayman And Associates (total number of associates: 0) visiting a financial client in downtown Toronto doing some consulting work for their system of NeXT computers, and it was convenient to carry a 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive back and forth. How else would you do it? Geez. I thought I was living in the future. Look...
