Technology Sure Has Come A Long Way
 

Hard disk in 1981:

Just think what that cost was in today's money - the equivalent of $25,000 USD!

Holy Shit we have it good!

I recall spending several hundred dollars for an external hard drive that I think only had four mega bytes of storage. My memory is a little vague about this as it was so many years ago. But yeah technology in all fields has come along way. What will this century produce?

Someone once said that whatever man can imagin...given enough time man can do...and I think that there is alot of truth to that.

The problem is that there are many life changing events that are over due to happen and it is not a question of if they will happen but only a question of when they will happen...so time for man kind is a concern.

I think a lot of those life changing events may have already happened in some ways. Some of the discoveries we have waited for but have not seen.

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Yeah, and HDD / backup solutions is still one of the businesses with very stable future. As the amount of data is ever increasing.

Seems like Western Digital for example is doing just fine:

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/wdc/revenue-eps

My first IBM compatible desktop cost over $3k and came with a 120 meg HDD, 2 meg of RAM, a black & white monitor and a color dot matrix printer

They were the days... I wrote whole systems in Microsoft Cobol for use on IBM PC's, back in 1982-5. The computers cost about $6k as I remember, and had dual floppy disk drives (each disk could store 360k of data). When the first PC-XT came out with an onboard 10MB hard drive, it seemed like a huge leap forward.

I am talking about super volcanoes such as Yellow Stone...asteroids hitting the earth...catastrophic life changing events.

I remember when hard drive space was so small... I used to store images for web design on floppy disks.

I bought Street Fighter 2 when I was little and it came on 8 floppy disks. :upsidedow

What the fuck was a harddrive? I thought floppy disks were the end-all. They beat tape all to hell. HDD are over, it's all SSD now.

Very true. As our office hard drive's age, we are replacing them with SDD's. Love them.

Yea, I remember those days: "Insert disk three to continue installation".

Wow. That's pretty crazy.

56k modem, no videos, pc's had 128k of ram, if you wanted 500k of ram that was a couple hundred bucks or more, hosting plans started off in MB of transfer and we paid a couple grand for 5-700mb for traffic, hehe the old days :)

I worked at Radio Shack in 1989 and 1990. We sold 20 MB hard drives for about $800. We had a cell phone that was huge and cost $1400. The phone service cost about $50 a month plus 35 cents per minute.

These good old days...