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Originally Posted by Platapus
I remember when DEC came out with one of the first commercial hard drives. It was the size of a desktop computer and held 5 Megabytes. This was back in the early 80's.
At that time, I thought that there was no way a normal person would ever buy this. 5MB? No ordinary user would ever have that much data. Perhaps a big corporation could use 5MB but not an individual consumer.
Oh my how things have changed. Now we have terabyte drives for just a few hundred dollars.
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Well it hasn't really changed that much given that it's been 20-30 years since the true commercial take-off of desktop & home computers. When I thought about the 2000 and beyond in, say, 1985, it was a pretty distant and almost sci-fi thing to fathom. Now we know that it's more about the commercial side of the whole thing that matters, home computers don't evolve any quicker then it's commercially wise for the makers meaning that they evolve about as slow as they can. And one still has to dish out pretty much the same amount of money for a decent/ok cpu.