1 gigabyte of memory then and now
 

A photo illustration of 1 gig of memory circa 1980 and current times.

Hard to believe.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/h...1gbthennow.jpg

Holy crap. its as big/bigger as/than a dinner plate...

the memorycard that is representing now is rather big, ive got an 8 gigabyte memorycard that is slightly less than half of it

LOL at first glance I thought it was a flywheel out of a volkswagon :rotfl:

But how much cooler is that old memory? I want four of those bad boys hanging from the side of my case, hissing and steaming with a faint radioactive glow. Oh, and the voice from Command & Conquer telling me how much RAM I am using.

:haha: Won't be long before memory will be a virtual entity.

Isn't it already?

You can pick up storage devices, but you can't pick up the memory/information stored inside.

Hmmm... that's right.

That card is actually very big. On a modern hard drive platter you can fit 500GB making each GB "Spot" difficult to spot.

And on top of that you've got SSD tech that can fit a gig into an area almost too small to see.

Reminds you how much things have changed:hmmm:

Are my eyes decieving me or are those the largest platers I have ever seen?

Ahhh, the good old days of an real Hard (and heavy) heavy drive!:D

my m8's got a hard drive from gods knows when, its a 70mb drive, its the size of a breezeblock and weighs as much as the same size of depleted uranium!!!

Actually, the 1980 1GB looks smaller than I would have imagined. Even when I had my first computer around the early 90s, 1GB was a pretty unreachable amount IIRC - mine had around 420MB and was it 16MB RAM or was it only 8?

i remember the external hard drives for my amiga back in the early 90's it was the same size as the entire pc but only 10% its width.
it was HUGE holding a whopping 150mb!

in fact here's one right here ;)
http://amiga.erkan.se/wp-content/upl...-harddrive.jpg