The first computer I bought with my own money when I was 14 was an XT Clone with a 10 megabyte hard drive. When it crashes, I backed up every document I had ever written in WordPerfect 5.1 to a single zipped file that fit on a 1.44 megabyte floppy disk.
MDG here in Canada now offers a computer for about $1000 with a Terrabyte of storage! That's almost a million floppy disks!
The fact that I measure things still in floppy disk units just betrays my age...
But seriously, who really needs a terrabyte? How much bloatware and mp3 files do you really need to keep around?
Friday, March 23, 2007
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2 comments:
You know, it's sad. I saw an ad for a USB memory key the other day that said "holds 175 floppy disks worth of data".
Like anybody gives a crap about anything measured in those units...
Can I go to a movie theater and order 2 and a half bladders of Coke ?
Ya know what? Say 256MB and we pretty much all get it now...
Hi great rreading your post
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