1 gigabyte of memory then and now

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

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?

[Melonfish]

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

[Spoon 11th]

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

Holy crap thats big...

[Wolfehunter]

I've seen some big hardrives.. big floppy drives... I've never seen ram that big before... Jezzz.

This was my first computer fully equipped with voice and sound

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-99/4A

back in the early 80s.. I still have it boxed...

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Spoon 11th

5MB from 1956.

http://www.popular-pics.com/pictures.aspx?photoid=422

you could get maybe TWO MP3 songs on that thing

[Bill Nichols]

Originally Posted by Melonfish

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

I can beat that. For my Apple ][ in the mid-1980s, my 10 MByte external drive was the size of a shoebox.

[Letum]

It won't be long before we talk of Yobibyte hard drives that we can hold in
the palm of our hand. The future will think of us as we think of the past.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Letum

It won't be long before we talk of Yobibyte hard drives that we can hold in
the palm of our hand. The future will think [of] us as we think of the past.

and they would be right :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

And even before that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

[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.

[Kloef]

Back in 1985 when i worked for IBM the first harddisk arrived at the office,50MB.....state of the art technology then and we were the first in Europe to receive one....everybody wanted a look so we had extra coffee and chairs so people could wait for their turn to watch 'the magic' as we called it...the price was something like a new house i remember that..

We had a great offer from the company,the 'mother of all pc's' the 8086 processor.A 14 inch monochrome monitor,a keyboard and 2 floppydirves ,2! for the small amout of only 17.000 which was really cheap back then!I declined the offer because i had a Commodore 64(couldnt tell the company about that in those days)..10 years later i did buy one just for nostalgia,i paid $300...an a colour monitor included..

But that 1GB looks really cool,wouldnt mind installing one just for the looks..

we came a long way,micro SD 16GB.....in a mobile phone