Source: https://www.scribd.com/doc/235024900/Unit-6-Analysis-1-Memory-Cost
Now think about the amount of storage we will have 45 years from now.
don't worry, at this rate we'll be back to that pricing in no time...
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And every step of the way, some assholes idiots inspired society to think "we will never need more than this"
With "waiting for" they mean probably the slow read/write speed.
Hard disks were blazing fast compared to floppies.
They still are.
the c64's lt.kernel hard disk had a data transfer speed of 38 kilobytes per second. compare to something like the st506/mfm (the first 5.25in hdd) with specs that max out at 5 megabits per second.
which was a significant upgrade over the 1541 floppy drive at like 400 bytes per second (up to ~ 2.5 kilobytes per second with a fastload cartridge). atari's floppy drive was about twice as fast, apple's were even faster. commodore at the time insisted on backwards compatibility with their earlier disk drive, which is why the 1541 was so fucking slow.
Agree, and it was noisy as fuck.
Owning a 20MB hard drive for my Atari ST was still THE DREAM in 1989.
Couldn't afford it, though, so it was 720kB floppy discs until 1996, when I got my first PC.
I had one for my ST. It came in a box the size of a shoebox. If I recall, I paid $500 for it and a colour monitor. It was loaded with a bunch of games cracked by "The Blade Runners".
The drive died at one point but I saved the box because it was so cool. I thought about loading it with a handful of backup drives.
Local storage will be illegal in 45 years.
I didn't think about that, "you'll own nothing and be happy" plan...
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Probably going to cost that again soon if AI keeps eating the world.
Nice try, AI companies!
It really is insane that 1TB micro SD cards exist now
Yes, it is:
Yeah but your crypto was safe, brah.
My second computer had a 20 MB HDD and it was wonderful to have soooo much space compared to the previous computer which had no HDD and 3 floppy drives.
Then a year later I added a second 20 MB HDD and was absolutely swimming in space.
Back then a 'large' app was 100 KB. You'd spend all day writing code and produce a 13 KB file.
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26 megabytes...who will ever need that much.
I know, right? I had a 20 MB drive on my Amiga. Plenty.
It's funny to see cost per GB on the right. Back in 1980, most people didn't even know what a Gigabyte might be.
Around 2000 I remember a guy at the computer store telling me that 20 gigs was a ton and how would I even use it? Well, one pirated 700 Meg movie at a time is how (most pirate copies tried to keep movies to 700 mb so they'd fit on a burned cd)
(most pirate copies tried to keep movies to 700 mb so they'd fit on a burned cd)
linux distributions used to do the same. now they dgaf, and some iso don't even fit on a single layer dvd.
hell, i just purged more than a "cd's worth" of old kernels out of /boot here.
I always chuckle thinking about taking a 1TB Micro SD back in time and watching people’s heads explode.
I remember being in college in the very early 90s and a friend got a machine with 2 2gb hard drives and wondering what he was going to do with all that space. Now I have a NAS at home with something like 100TB and it’s almost 75% full.
Ahoy, matey! 🤣
It’s not clear if the original adjusted for inflation. $5000 in todays money is $21,500
That ain't nowhere near enough to store the nudes your mom sent me.
"yer mom has so many sex toys we call her Anal Fissure Price" -Shoresy.
I remember my parents taking us to the Gateway store, and the guy who helped us said something along the lines of “This PC has 12 gigs; you’ll never run out of space!”
Napster hit the scene within a few months. Started getting “low disk space!” warnings real quick.
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All the oldies flocking here to tell everyone about how cool their tiny hard drives were.
Hi, I had a 25mb hard drive and it was awesome. Technology!
All the oldies flocking here to tell everyone about how cool their tiny hard drives were.
sigh...as a kid there was actually no storage. You would transcribe code from magazines, then the tape cassette era, they worked 80% of the time, 50% of the time.
My word, tell me the secrets of the past before you disappear, wise sir!
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I remember getting my first 10MB hard drive, c. the 80s. I remember holding it in my hands and marveling at how I could put ten million bytes in this little enclosure and just... carry it around, if I so chose. Not that I was inclined to; that thing was heavy.
Eventually, after the drive failed, I took it apart and pinched the absolute fuck out of my finger between the two neodymium magnets. Blood was spilled.
Computers used to be fun. They still are, but they used to be too.
I had a 186 (or possibly an 8088?) in the mid 80s as my first PC. It ran on two low density 5.25" floppy drives, with no internal HD. My uncle bought himself a new HDD and gave me his old 20MB drive. When I was next at the local computer store, I asked how much a 20MB drive costs, and my jaw hit the floor!
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Tbf, very few people had a hard disk at home in 1980. And if they did, it was a smaller capacity. The IBM PC XT shipped with a 10 MB drive in 1983.
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