need small HD's

[George Toft]

Let me state for the record that no personal computer will ever need
more than 640K of RAM (William Gates III).  That's right up there
with "the country will need no more than about ten of these 
'computers.'"  (There are something like 2 billion of them in the
world right now.)

22 years ago, I had 48K RAM and a 88K floppy drive and no modem.
Original cost was $1800.  Adjusted for inflation: $7000.

11 years ago, I had 1MB RAM, and a 30MB hard drive with a 300bps modem.
Cost: $1300.  Inflated cost: $2300.

Now I have 128MB RAM, and a 2 GB drive (that was donated) on a 640/272
kbps dsl line.  Cost: $600.

10 years from now I should have a multiputer with 16 nodes (each of
which has 128MB RAM), and a SAN with 500 Terabyte ultra-RAID on a
Gigabit network (because that's all I can afford) with a FreeT3.com
(44.7 mbps) DSL line, because I'll put up with the streaming video 
advertisements for free Internet II access.
Cost: $1200.  Deflated cost: $700

Laugh now.  See me in 10 years.

George



Jason wrote:
> 
> Hawke wrote:
> >
> > have any of you any spare HD's laying around (IDE >= 1.0 gig or larger)?
> >
> > I'm finding I need a few of them to get some other boxes up and working
> > here.
> 
> anyone got any extra of those small drives that are a minimum of a
> billion bytes in capacity.. heheh.. what would you say to yourself if
> you heard yourself saying that ten years ago..
> 
> :-)
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