1 gigabyte of memory then and now

Platapus · 08-08-09, 11:49 AM

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.

08-08-09, 11:49 AM	#22
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,393 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.