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To: dp0622
My first computer had 16MB storage!!!

Mine had 4KB storage. And half of that was for system use with bootstrap routines and temp use, so all of 2KB for my personal use. 16K storage cost an additional $500; I was happy when it dropped to $250 so when I upgraded I had 20KB storage. You had 4000 times the storage I started with. And we didn't have disk drives or floppies, we saved programs to cassette tapes, which were an improvement over the punched paper tape I used on minis. Lots of changes in the last 5 decades! Now I know the feeling my dad had watching our astronauts land on the Moon, having started out driving a Model T car many decades earlier.

47 posted on 10/30/2019 7:57:54 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

WHAT CAN YOU POSSIBLY DO WITH 2KB?!?!!?!?!

I would have stroked out with impatience!!

I can’t even figure in my head how many more times storage a terabyte holds than your original.

I’m getting ridiculous numbers in my head that can’t be right. Wow.


48 posted on 10/30/2019 8:04:54 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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