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Posted: 2006-01-13 12:09:48
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it's amazing how far we've come! the level of technology's pace is staggering. imagine that behemoth contained 40 MB and at that size. now we're fitting more than 10 times that much memory and processor speed in packages barely the size of cigarette lighters!
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Posted: 2006-01-13 12:19:12
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Yeah it took a 5 thousand years to go from rubbing sticks together to developing matches, but in only 20 years from the first hard drives look what we've got now.
IU dont get why the 6gb 2006 model costs $400 though?? Seems very steep
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Posted: 2006-01-13 12:22:33
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i think its really small
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Posted: 2006-01-13 18:01:04
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Yeah, its behind a magnifying glass.
Lol I would like to see an i-pod from 1985, or someone using one. They would need a fork lift.
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Posted: 2006-01-13 18:16:24
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Posted: 2006-01-13 18:23:21
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f**k me thats big, who the hell would pay $40,000 for 40mb and bigger then my car lol, I which i could travel back in time and sell apple a 300gb hd - id be a millionair
mind u i like the way they only thought we would have a 6gb hd, when they thought we be living on the moon by then, i think they seriously underestimated us folk lol
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Posted: 2006-01-13 18:42:54
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f**k me thats big, who the hell would pay $40,000 for 40mb and bigger then my car lol, I which i could travel back in time and sell apple a 300gb hd - id be a millionair
mind u i like the way they only thought we would have a 6gb hd, when they thought we be living on the moon by then, i think they seriously underestimated us folk lol
Well, they didn't underestimate, just got time predictions wrong
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Posted: 2006-01-13 19:27:18
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Well, the biggest fastest hard drives you can buy today are actually 10 or so SCSI drives in raid controller packs - and go for several hundred thousand dollars, and serve the same purpose now that the 40MB drives of 1985 performed back then, so the price differential isn't that great at all when you take into consideration inflation.
Where you simply added platters to a hard drive to increase it's capacity back then, now you just add more small drives to a controller pack.
Back in those days there was very little graphical data to include with files (for example now hard drives store multimedia, then they stored simple text based databases only) which explains why the 40MB capacity was useful in those days. Of course now 40MB is less than a decent phones has.
40MB equates to (very roughly) 40,000,000 characters - that's quite a lot of text data. Where as one 2MP picture equates to not much less than 1,000,000 characters - so a device even today that can hold 40 million characters can only hold 40 2MP pictures.
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Posted: 2006-01-14 02:04:45
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hmmm very interestring, image what they would have thought of the ipod he he
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Posted: 2006-01-14 04:05:03
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