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1 GB of Storage – 1987 versus 2009 [Image]
1 GB in 1987 and 1GB in 2009 [9GAG]
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- By Asian Angel on 11/9/11
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shoulda put a micro sd next to it.
What’s the price difference?
I totally want that. I can put it in the back of my car and claim it is a time traveling device.
even a micro sd is huge nowadays…..
1987:
10 PRINT “HELLO WORLD” –> ~50 bytes
2009:
MSGBOX{“HELLO WORLD”} –> 1MB
Thats just the platter drive. The actual housing for the drive and and power supply was the size of a 4 drawer filing cabinet. The platters would spin at deadly speeds..were removable. Spent 5 years maintaining those beasts on a Burroughs 1800 system running Cobol programmed with punch cards!!
Woooow!!!! Thank if we had this big thing now, our ps3,xbox360,wii,and pc games would look like crap we would be stuck in 2d land thank god for the greeks for real tho, I respect these smart freaks cause they created and give us thing the normal minded man couldnt offer sulute to you all, please dont bully them become friends with them cause in all they might be the ones hiring you for real tho.
Carry that thing on public transit these days and you’ll probably get nabbed by Homeland Security wanting to investigate it.
I want to know why there isn’t any hard drives this big nowdays…
I mean… they could store *checks wikipedia* Yottabytes or something, right?
(It’d be impractical, but still interesting)
Unfair comparison – should have shown it compared to a 1 gig disk drive, not an SD device. Mind you the change still would have been dramatic.
And where would anybody get a new 1 GB disk drive in 2009?
In my DSLR are 2 SDHD slots with a 64GB card in each. I wonder what size truck it would take to haul around 128 of those things and the generator to power them, and would the Park Service let me into Yosemite with it?! HAH!!
There was a 64gig SD card by Toshiba in 2009.
LOL!! Imagine how a 4TB would have been like (if it was even imagined back then).. :D
LOVE it!!!
You wouldn’t want that in yer laptop would you!
Does anyone here remember the gigantic floppy disks back in the day? Thank goodness for miniaturization!
Let the exponential growth continue….
In 1991, I spent $450 for a 45mb hard drive bigger than a Time Capsule. And that was a good price.
Thanks to MicroSD, I have an 8gb chip smaller than the nail on my pinky. And it cost $12.
*phew*