Just backing up my FS2 now, all 132.5 gb of it got me thinking. 1987 and I had one of the fastest desktop machines in my State with an unheard of huge 300mb hard drive. 30 years later most of us have 2tb external drives as the norm. 6666.666 times more capacity. In 30 years time given that rate of growth we should all have at least 13.3333 pb drives! Wonder if they will sell for $89 at Walmart or Officeworks?
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Just backing up my FS2 now, all 132.5 gb of it got me thinking. 1987 and I had one of the fastest desktop machines in my State with an unheard of huge 300mb hard drive. 30 years later most of us have 2tb external drives as the norm. 6666.666 times more capacity. In 30 years time given that rate of growth we should all have at least 13.3333 pb drives! Wonder if they will sell for $89 at Walmart or Officeworks?
300mb HD in 1987 is really worth boasting. I had a computer with 40mb HD in 1992, and the HD alone costs $200.
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Those were the days. I remember buying a 64 MB HD for something like 650 guilders (which would be something like 300 euro's or 350 dollars now). Incredible. At that time I thought I was ready for the next decades LOL
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Cannot boast, it was a work machine and not mine. My employer had plans to put our delivery networks in graphic format on it. Easy to do these days but back then not so easy.
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I learned to code in Z80 on a ZX81 with 1K RAM and spent £50 on a 16k ram pack
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What about SSD's?, that's the way to the future!.
Cheers, Ed