Now there's this:
San Disk Extreme - 256 GB for $27
Posted on 06/26/2024 1:20:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
Tech History Ping!................
“Gentlemen, start your platters!”
To me, there were two significant improvements to the original IBM PC architecture. Number one was the internal hard drive. USB = #2.
My first true hard drive was 15 meg — 90 lbs
Winchester — took 3 minutes to stabilize before heads could access platters.
Hell, a DemocRAT congress-critter can store zero bytes of information on a five-hundred page piece of legislation.
And a liberal kollege pro-phessor can exceed that by a factor of ten in his/her/its book(s).
USB was a real game changer.
USB forever! Or something like it.
Did you need to park the drive heads as part of the shut down?
I remember the removable 10MB RL02 disk packs from DEC, handled a LOT of those in the 80's.
The capability and cost have both improved dramatically.
The problem: when it fails you are back to zero.
For example, the CDK software hack shut down the systems of half the car dealers in the country last week. It is still going, and will continue until at least the end of June.
They are doing sales, leasing, service, repairs all by hand.
The only parking done in the early 80s that didn’t involve the tongue.
I remember the first small one gig hard drive that fit in a memory card slot. Some $300 — for digital cameras.
Looks like it’s about the size of a Mazda Wankel engine.
Looks like you need to check your calibers.
Now there's this:
San Disk Extreme - 256 GB for $27
That’s why you backs ups and redundancy.
I started out my IT career after the Navy working on 14-inch platters. Then at Maxtor and later Seagate with 5-1/4-inch full-size Winchester drives—for years I had a 5MB drive, may still have it in a box somewhere. Now I’ve got multi-terabyte USB flash drives!
-PJ
They should add the cost of computer memory to the other FR article about how living in America is so much cheaper under Joe Biden.
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