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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.