Of course, we kidded Shelby about "that's more memory than you'll use in your lifetime"; back then, we could fit every program and document we had on a few floppies. On the machine I'm using now, with a hard drive that's two weeks old, I've used about 30GB before loading any games or movies.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Memory
A little over 20 years ago, a friend of mine bought a Seagate 20MB hard drive for $800. Today I bought an 8G flash drive for about $20. That's 400 times the space for 1/40 of the price--his cost in dollars per MB was 16,000 times what mine was, plus mine is portable, takes no power and fits on my keychain.
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First PC: $800 20 Mb hard drive
Current purchase I'm eyeing: 1 Tb hard drive for $100
Comparison: I'm getting 400,000 times the value I did back then.
Also, your flash drive does not take no power. Just try getting anything off it without power. Good luck with that.
Also by way of comparison:
First Computer: WP for Dos, 1 720 Kb Floppy.
Current Computer: HP Printer Driver, 20 Mb. For just the driver.
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