To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The amount of hardware driving this is huge....
1) In 1996 I bought a >16Megabyte machine
2) In 2010 I bought a 16Gigabyte machine
Therefore
3) Give it 14 years, and 16 Terabytes will be a high end workstation
4) A few years after that, it will be on everyone’s desktop and phone
9 posted on
02/11/2011 11:40:35 AM PST by
ROTB
(Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
To: ROTB
1985 Kilobytes
1995 Megabytes
2005 Gigabyes
2015 Terabytes
I dont think it will be 14 years before we see something approaching this on a desktop
more like 5 or 10
15 posted on
02/11/2011 11:51:45 AM PST by
Mr. K
("Diversity is an obstacle to be overcome, not a goal to be achieved" -Ann Coulter)
To: ROTB
The amount of hardware driving this is huge....
1) In 1996 I bought a >16Megabyte machine
2) In 2010 I bought a 16Gigabyte machine You young whipper-snapper!
In MY day, they gave us an "enormous" 64 KILObytes of memory and we said, "Thank you, sir". ;-)
Commodoe 64 Commercial
18 posted on
02/11/2011 11:58:00 AM PST by
Polybius
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