Look how far we've come in only 50 years
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I can remember when disk storage costs $1000 per megabyte.
The storage of a 1TB flash card would be $1 billion
The first computer they gave me at work came in three 19" cabinets each one roughly the size of a refrigerator. The first one had the CPU, core memory and power supply. The second had the "high-speed" paper tape punch and reader and the third had some specialised circuitry.
I saw a machine with a much higher spec and included extras like permanent storage. It was over 250 times faster, had 16 times the RAM, had 2MBytes of permanent storage. It was the size of a stick of chewing gum and you could buy five for £15!
I feel old!
Don't forget the rack of modems in the next bay. When I started in the biz, modems cost $1/bit. When they became obsolete, they were less than a penny/bit.
Modems?
You mean you could connect your computer to something else? Luxury!
I remember this 40MB HDD at work, right out of college. I think they called it the washing machine. It was as big as one, it sounded like one, and rattled around like one with an unbalanced heavy load. Sounded like it was going to self destruct at any moment.
Magnetic core memory used to be $1 a bit at one time. That makes my 32GByte machine at home worth $256 billion.
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Lol I look at that and it reminds me of one of my first "adult" jobs - we had a separate room in the middle of the offices upstairs - at least 10x10 - own ac system - the rest of the room were the computers. Lol just had room to walk down the middle.
I am now going to tell the computer exactly what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!
🤣🤣 guilty!
of Multitasking ... good job