How Do You Like It: Moore Moore Moore!

[ornoth]

When I was in school, the original IBM PC came out. Anyone who used them will never forget carrying a handful of those black-sleeved 5¼-inch floppy disks around. Talk about data portability! You could fit the entire PC-DOS operating system on one 360 kB floppy and still have

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[imperator_mei]

I used have an old newspaper clipping from my college newspaper. The content of the clipped article I've long since forgotten, but I do remember that on the back of the clipping was an ad from the local computer store: "20MB hard drive, installed, only $2,000!"

[imperator_mei]

And of course, this will be recursive. 20 years from now we'll the think the scale of this comparison is ridiculous, like someone marveling at the leap from 2 to 20 horsepower in car engines.

(Or, conversely, we'll be grousing about how memory just plateaued and we're having to buy 3 buckets of memory chips just to load SimCity 12: Infinite Sprawl.)