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[dakegra]

ok, so the new 'puter is jolly lovely, runs nice and fast, and now has over a terabyte of storage.

holy...

a terabyte of storage.

That's a thousand gigabytes. 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

(yes, I know about SI vs binary values. stick with me here)

My first PC had 4MB of RAM, and a whopping 100MB of hard disk space.

how long before we look back and laugh. "Oh, remember the days? I had a *whole* terabyte of storage! how quaint! my phone has more than that!"

actually, my phone has a 4GB memory card in. A thousand times more than my old PC's RAM.

in other news, I hate this keyboard. It's really clacky and noisy, and my mouse is a cheap piece of crap.

in other other news: yes, I am procrastinating about writing any more of my NaNo.

Comments

[nallac.livejournal.com]

My first computer had 16K of RAM, and a tape recorder.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

ah, my first *computer* had 48K of RAM, the inimitable ZX Spectrum. Happy days.

[jugglebug.livejournal.com]

I had a vic 20. I needed to buy a ram pack to *upgrade* it to 16K

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

is this going to turn into the Four Yorkshiremen of Computers What We Have Owned?

:-)

[jugglebug.livejournal.com]

ah well of course we 'ad it tough afore that.
'Ad to mek do with abacus with only 5 beads on the 10 row

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

five beads? Luxury. We had to use us fingers, and toes.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

I had a Commodore 16, but aspired to a Vic 20! *Jealous*

[martinoh.livejournal.com]

Ignoring the domestic product sector for a moment, I did use an original IBM PC with cassette port (though it had been specc'd up with 64KB factory-fit RAM and a 360KB floppy drive) in the course of doing my first freelance work. The first x86 machine I actually owned was a PC-XT with 128KB and a 10MB hard drive.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Write write write, like a baby kite!

You can do it! Just plow through those words! I'm writing stuff that makes absolutely no sense given the stuff I wrote a few pages ago!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I'm writing! (ok, I'm checking emails, but I've got NaNo open in the background)

Cassie and Sam are just about to go into the library on their first day, and Tom is posing on the manicured lawn outside, reading battered old books and looking pretty.

ok, plot ninja! Quick, what should happen next? Something fun and interesting which will keep me going for a few minutes?

[da-pol.livejournal.com]

Keep going! You have to fill a terabyte with a novel by the end of the month!!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Something should catch on fire or explode! Depending on what you want. A fire hydrant could burst. Maybe there are some kids trying to conduct a chemistry experiment outside the library.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

My first comp had 2MB RAM and a 40MB hard drive... Yeah...

And yes, I hate clacky keyboards!