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Funny isn't it? I remember when 1MB was unheard of.
BTW did you see the Inventor of FORTRAN died a few days ago.
And podtech realy ought to do a video on the spacex guys
http://spacex.com/updates.php
Jay, from Bangalore
http://ideaburger.blogspot.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabyte
You can't think what you can do with just one, well, I say that within a few months of release we will buy *hundreds* of the 1TB model
He'd look too much like his hero --The Breck Girl, John Edwards.
:lol:
Actually, I do remember the old Purple Data Pushers -- they were the reason I got into computers. At work we had a copy of the original Dungeons and Dragons (pre "Adventure" and "Zork") on the 8" dual (!) floppy drives and I learned to access the computer during my lunch break (yeah ..., thats what it was ... "lunch") so I could play the game. What I discovered was that the computer was a real-life form of the game. You had to solve puzzles, know the secret passwords, spells, and other esoteric knowledge and at any point either a thief would zip by and steal your treasures or else the troll under the bridge would come out and get you.
Sometimes I wax nostalgic for manually almost-booting with the front panel switches, the twisted and torn punch tapes, IBM card mispunches and a dropped-torn-spindled-and-mutilated deck, inaudible audio cassette drives, the constant clacking of the floppy drives, and the shear volume of a room full of Telex machines. And if you believe that, I've got some beachfront property to sell you!
Thanks for the memories.
-eef
It's a big drive, that's all that matters I think. I still have some 2.1 GB drives here on the desk ...
Anyone remember Lisa's (And Apple's) first hard drive? It was external, big and heavy, 5 Megabytes, took somewhere around 5-10 minutes to boot the Lisa, and cost $2495.00.
Years later, the 160 Meg Seagate drive died on my 4-month old Mac IIx. This was in the day when Apple's warranty was 90 days, even though Seagate's was 1 year. No amount of complaining changed my fate- $1700.00 for a new 160M drive.
Yesterday, after a Drive Genius bug nuked my SATA 250G drive, I went to Best Buy and bought an external FireWire/USB 2.0 Seagate 750G drive for$335.00, give or take a few singles. Oh, and it's full today. Temporarily, while I resurrect data.
BTW, I do have a huge drive with all the Hubble data on it. A virtual one, anyway. The internet!
one thing I do know now is no matter how much space you have, its never enough !!!
Now I am waiting when I am gonna be able to run my PC entirely on solid state storage... that would be cool.. at least for now...