10-07-2024, 08:26 PM
(10-07-2024, 06:39 PM)FlyingClayDisk Wrote: Isn't that great??? That many years ago we thougth 32k RAM was awesome. Today, we bitch about anything less than 32mb of RAM. I have (3) laptops, and (2) of them have 32 mb of RAM. Those were cool back "in the day" but now we have hyper-threading, over-clocking and multiple process "cores" which renders just raw RAM almost obsolete. Used to be people measured PC chips on processor chip clock speed...now it's a whole different equation. Raw clock speed means almost nothing now.
How far we've come.
It's amazing. I remember, in the 80s, holding a 360KB floppy disk in my hand and thinking: wow, everything I've written, everything I've typed is here, in the palm of my hand. Everything computery, that is, and for a young me that was pretty much everything. I was one of those kids. Proto-nerd.
And it wasn't much longer before I learned Moore's Law. That computer power and storage capacity double, quickly. Over and over again. Every few years. It wasn't much longer before I got my first hard drive. 20MB. Hundreds of floppy disks of storage! Wow!
Oh, that was so many years ago. Kilo, mega. Giga! Just a decade later, storage was being measured using words I didn't even know, back then.
Fast-forward to today. This summer, I've been organizing my data archives. I'm a bit of a packrat, data-wise. I've kept most everything. Rebuild computer to read old ESDI drives and DAT tapes. Data-recovered all those old floppies. Digitized CDs.
Just last week, I managed to consolidate it all down to less than 24TB. That's more than 50 million times as much data as was on that little 360KB, 5.25" floppy disk.
And you know what? It still all fits on a drive I can hold in the palm of my hand!
I followed the Science, and all I found was the Money.
