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Being a generator Xer having a computer with a 10 MB hard drive was a big deal.
1 posted on 01/05/2017 11:15:30 AM PST by C19fan
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“Nobody will ever need more than 64K!”


2 posted on 01/05/2017 11:18:05 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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You mean 10Gb drive right? In 1990 a 500Mb hard drive was a big deal.


3 posted on 01/05/2017 11:18:27 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave. - - Ronaldus Magnus Reagan)
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You can already get a 2TB USB drive on ebay. I have 2 of them. Smaller profile than the device pictured in the article.


4 posted on 01/05/2017 11:19:58 AM PST by hsrazorback1 (...and I'm spent.)
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They always tell us the new tech offers more than we will ever need then we use it all up anyway.

I can hear my future grandkids asking why we only had USB drives with 1 TB.

I am still waiting to get the laser pistol that was on my lunchbox in 1974.


5 posted on 01/05/2017 11:20:31 AM PST by WMarshal ( Schadenfreude, it feels so good!)
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Enormous 2 TB USB Drive Can Hold Everything You Need and More

I don't want an "enormous" 2 TB USB Drive! I want a teensy-weensy one that will fit, e.g., into my breast pocket.

Regards,

6 posted on 01/05/2017 11:20:40 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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I wonder if Hillary or the DNC have one?


7 posted on 01/05/2017 11:20:49 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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“2 TB USB Drive Can Hold Everything You Need and More?”

No, not for some. I have a project that will likely exceed that by the end of this year.


8 posted on 01/05/2017 11:21:10 AM PST by redfreedom
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failure and or corruption rate of thumb drives is quite high really- might be better of getting an external USB wired drives as a secondary backup just incase too- plus they are quite a bit faster transfr rate than thumb drives i believe-


11 posted on 01/05/2017 11:22:59 AM PST by Bob434
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I paid $2,500 to replace the 11 Meg hard drive on my Zenith 8 Bit CPM/ 16 Bit Dos computer back in the early 1980’s.

It was the top of the line prior to IBM and Apple.


12 posted on 01/05/2017 11:23:10 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Baby Boomer. I remember putting in the first 10Mb hard drives in an expansion slot and thinking no one would ever use all of this. I can tell you right now the statement that 2Tb is more than anyone can use totally false.


13 posted on 01/05/2017 11:23:29 AM PST by mikesmad
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A year from now one of these puppies will be left behind on a park bench by some bureaucrat....


16 posted on 01/05/2017 11:24:23 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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LOL! Yeah right until the programmers make their programs bigger.

For the record, I have a 2 TB internal drive and 3 additional flash drives (,2, 1 and 1 TBs). Haha!

Most are maxed out with the exception of the new 2 TB internal that I have plenty of space.

For the record, the new drives get filled up quick when you carry information over from your previous computer.


17 posted on 01/05/2017 11:24:24 AM PST by Enlightened1
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Computer geezer ping.


18 posted on 01/05/2017 11:25:40 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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My first computer was an Apple Performa 405. I think it had 16 MHz speed,
4 MB of Ram, 256k of VRAM, and 80 MB of hard drive space. It was a hand-me down from my son. When I upgraded a few years later, I gave it back to him and it was still working.


19 posted on 01/05/2017 11:25:42 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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In the late 1990’s we had a race at work to see who would get the first 1 gig hard drive. For sure no one would ever be able to fill a 1 gig hard drive. That was the thoughts in the 1990’s. I bet a 1 TB drive will be laughed at by 2030 if not sooner.


20 posted on 01/05/2017 11:26:58 AM PST by Plumres
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I finally had to switch from a 16 gig iPhone to a 32 gig.


21 posted on 01/05/2017 11:27:05 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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My first computer had 8k of core memory (70’s era IBM 360/20). Our storage devices were 80 column punch cards. Upgraded a couple years later to an IBM System/3 that had two 2.5 mb disk drives (one removable), with 96 column punch cards for input. Now that was a big deal.


25 posted on 01/05/2017 11:28:52 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Can Hold Everything You Need and More,

Obviously they don't know my pr0n stash.
(That's a joke.....Really!)

27 posted on 01/05/2017 11:29:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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Both probably much bigger than you could ever really need.

Must be a relative of the guy that proclaimed that "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

I just kicked up the HD in my Win10 machine from 1 to 2TB using a docking station.

28 posted on 01/05/2017 11:29:32 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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my first color dell laptop, 100MB - HUGE


29 posted on 01/05/2017 11:30:00 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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