Reply #38: Off Topic, but we're talking gigabytes here... so [View All]

[AnArmyVeteran]

In the early-90s, I bought two 9 gig drives for my company. I paid almost a thousand dollars a gig for them. I needed them for video production. I created and ran the facility so I needed a lot of memory to edit programs. When I look at how cheap a gig is now I am amazed. You can easily get a 250 gig drive for fifty bucks. In the early 90s it would have cost a staggering $250,000! I belonged to ITVA, International Television Association, and I used to go to meetings to keep track of the latest technologies. I still remember one day in the mid-90s when a guy showed us a card about the size of a credit card, but was a little bit thicker. He said his company was developing a 25 gig drive that was that small. It seemed amazing at the time, but now you can get that much storage in the size of a dime. Simply amazing.

BTW, a typical laptop has more memory than all the computers used to send a man to the moon. I used to work for NASA and there were huge building full of tall cabinets filled with computers. Yes, vacuum tubes were even used. The leaps in technology are almost beyond belief and progress is being made at an exponential rate. Who would have even dreamed of the smart phones like the iPhone fifteen years ago, when very few people even had cell phones. A family member had a cell phone about the size of a military walkie-talkie from the Korean War in the 90s, and now they are small enough to put in your pocket.