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(17,205 posts)Truth: when I took my first programming course in 1973, the computer we used (made by Facit, of all companies) had exactly one KILObyte of RAM.
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hifiguy
(33,688 posts)was a computer geek long before it was fashionable.
He was so proud, in 1987, of a Sperry computer he paid $7K for.
"Last computer I will ever need. 10 meg drive and 256K of RAM. i'll never fill it up."
hunter
(38,321 posts)Also 8 inch floppy drives.
I still have an 8 inch floppy drivein my garage, but I haven't powered it up for many years and i'm wary of doing so now. I'm certain it needs to be recapped, at least.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They used 100mb platter sets.
SwissTony
(2,560 posts)We didn't have access to the computer directly, of course, bu we could look through the window as it sat - the size of a bus - in it's own air conditioned room.
A colleague and I were once advising a much younger colleague on some computing and statistical concerns. The senior colleague and I mentioned the word "mainframe". The junior colleague literally said "Em, what's a mainframe?"
My USB stick is 60GB. Even that's not big these days.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)They had about 6 terrabytes of data worth of newspaper and magazine archives in a sealed, cooled, clean room environment.
In my bedroom now I have 7 terrabytes worth of hard drives filled with movies. All would fit in a reasonably sized briefcase.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I remember someone telling me a 3gb hard drive would be 'more than I'll even need.'
lastlib
(23,252 posts)His question was, could they put more than one song on it? I wound up explaining to him that in the mid-1960s it was an amazing feat for NASA's unmanned lunar probes to send back digital images of the moon from space, that digital photos were previously unknown. He was shocked to learn that.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Wow!
SSK Metal Super-speed USB3.0 Flash Drive 256GB
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$349.00