http://maymay.net/blog/2005/12/03/storage-space-beyond-cheap/ The brutally honest, first-person account of Meitar Moscovitz's life. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:17:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://maymay.net/blog/2005/12/03/storage-space-beyond-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-9181 Nick Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:47:14 +0000 /?p=274#comment-9181 In 1981, when I laid my hands on a computer for the first time, it was a PDP11. (That was just before the term PC was officially ushered to the human consciousness.) It was a state of the art technology driving the Genigraphics system, a slide (35mm or 72mm transparencies used as the main and practically the only choice of pro business presenters) - This system had 32K RAM, no hard drive (But a huge cabinet housing several 14Inch dia. tape to tape reel), a floppy drive for Max capacity of 64K on those 14" square floppies. In 1985 I had my first Mac. (128K and 20MB of external HD which weighs more then my laptop, Oh, just thought of perspectives... 30 years from now, a terabyte would seem, well... like ... eh, I guess there will be other , more complex things to store. In 1981, when I laid my hands on a computer for the first time, it was a PDP11. (That was just before the term PC was officially ushered to the human consciousness.) It was a state of the art technology driving the Genigraphics system, a slide (35mm or 72mm transparencies used as the main and practically the only choice of pro business presenters) – This system had 32K RAM, no hard drive (But a huge cabinet housing several 14Inch dia. tape to tape reel), a floppy drive for Max capacity of 64K on those 14″ square floppies. In 1985 I had my first Mac. (128K and 20MB of external HD which weighs more then my laptop, Oh, just thought of perspectives… 30 years from now, a terabyte would seem, well… like … eh, I guess there will be other , more complex things to store.

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