Well that’s at most £10 for a decent sized flash-drive. They’re as cheap as chips these days (see what I did there?), so why all of the fuss? It was mentioned four or five times.
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I think maybe Simon Frith thought that it sounded Expensive?
And as we know, the most that Roy was able to stump up for his daughter was £5 plus a couple of quid in change. Which might just buy two drinks.
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“A drive for my laptop” could be a USB stick, or it could be an actual component. But I don’t think any of these people are competent to swap computer components, even if they have laptops that can be upgraded; they’d hand it over to the bloke at PC World with a grunt that sounded vaguely like “fix it”.
Not that many young people have laptops these days anyway.
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But even after paying Hayley for Abbie etc. He’s not exactly going to be short of cash. It’s not as if he was GG’s porter.
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But here, she had the “drive and a couple of tops” there where Roy could see them and ask about them.
Yes. she could have had a 3.5" USB HDD but even then it’s hardly bank-breaking and if she needed it in a hurry, It is quite reasonable to mention it to her mother/g-mother. A 1TB drive is just over £40, a 500gb is around £33
I don’t know what she’d need one of those for.
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(contemplates Feral’s mirrored 48TB array down in the cave)
(says nuffin)
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Wot the Hell does Feral Techie need mirrors for ?
Carinthia.xx
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The Death Ray, obviously.
(I think Ambridge could do with a Death Ray. The only thing that can stop a bad man with a Death Ray is a good man with a Death Ray, etc.)
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Right…
Proffers Beer fer FT
Carinthia.xx
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So that he may reflect on the day’s events?
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Ha
Immoderate Giggle
carinthia.xx
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Definitely a made up piece of ‘tech’. (maybe that’s why mirrors are required … for applying the make-up ?? … Yes, I’ll get my coat).
I did assume it was a passport type portable hard drive. I have a 2TB one for my music & photos, plus a physical file back-up as opposed to the Cloud. Cost about £70.
That’s decades of photos and about 15,000 albums and it’s just over half full.
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Yeah, when Feral says “for my laptop” I tend to assume it’s a laptop-specific component, rather than something that could be plugged into any of the computers round here. So that may be misleading me.
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I just assume that Feral wants Beer
It seems safer…
Carinthia.xx
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Always one for the sure bet, then?
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Not just Feral. Trust me on this.
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