20GB in 1980 vs. 32GB in 2010

Eddy

21. Mar, 2010

MLN have 16GB SD cards on special for $32…
http://www.mln.com.au

Chris

21. Mar, 2010

Yes, Eddy, but larger SD cards tend to cost more than two smaller SD cards amounting to the same size. The point is that something so small and “cheap” can hold the same amount of information plus some as opposed to a $32 one holding less information.

Danny Grubb

21. Mar, 2010

At least in the IBM3380 all the bits had room to move around. There’s no privacy in a MicroSD card.

BTW, how many Bedrooms/Bathrooms does that IBM have? I’m looking for a new house.

Lou Reed

21. Mar, 2010

Oh wow, thats some pretty cool stuff dude.

Lou
http://www.anonymous-vpn.cs.nu/

Tech Blog

21. Mar, 2010

I remember having 1.2gb size hd and think that was big

Guy

21. Mar, 2010

16gb SD cards are not the same as 32gb MICRO SD cards. Still, $32 or $100 is nothing compared to the difference in price between the 1980s disk system and modern mobile flash storage.

Alan

21. Mar, 2010

Nice, but useless until we invent a time machine to take us back to 1980.

David

21. Mar, 2010

Think what it will be in 10 years.

cio

21. Mar, 2010

wow, don’t get into long term contracts for storage based on fixed numbers

The Tim Channel

21. Mar, 2010

In high school 1976.
Early computer science teacher:

“It’ll never be practical for the government to collect enough data on the citizenry to be a threat to our society. It would take a building the size of the Empire State building to hold a computer capable of such a task. I’m afraid your fears of intrusive government surveillance are just a fantasy Tim.”

Enjoy.

Robert

21. Mar, 2010

There are more than 303 billion cell phone users in the world at the present time. Imagine for a second, that you are back in the days of the internet like the 1990’s , paying for google adwords traffic is like pennies on the dollar and for that price you would get a hungry crowd of targeted buyers willing to purchase your product.

Well as most of us know now, this has all changed and with the cost of traffic with google adwords now being up from up to 32.00 per click, you have to dig deep to make a profit .

This is where Mack Michaels “Cell Phone Cash” comes in , and shows very clearly where one can find that the cost to advertise in this new oncoming market is in fact pennies on the dollar from .03 to .96 cents to reach an audience of millions of hungry prospects for your products.

With this new market unfolding, there is virtually. an untapped market available, and the time to jump on the bandwagon is now for sure. This is where the timing is important, to find out more you can click on the link provided below.
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p.s.
I can’t wait to get some of the new larger memory chips their awesome !!!!

na

21. Mar, 2010

how about the size and price of something like 32GB in 2040? Maybe 0.000000001grams and $0.01 …
wow!!!

omg

21. Mar, 2010

lol funny

Boris

21. Mar, 2010

Yeah, but MLN are scammers trying to sell demo laptops as new….

Rob

21. Mar, 2010

Wow, that’s amazing!!

Tardigrade

21. Mar, 2010

The interesting thing is that the 32 GB of the mainframe was used for much more relevant and mission-critical things than even 1 TB of PC storage today, and a mainframe could have 100s of users logged in while a PC can hardly handle 1.

What storage is used for has changed dramatically too, so there will never be enough storage.

joof

21. Mar, 2010

data expands to fill the storage space available to it.

John Schinker

21. Mar, 2010

@Robert There are NOT 303 billion cell phones on the planet, even counting all of the old ones in the bottom of my desk drawer. The UN estimates that there are about 5 billion active cell phones in the world, and that the number of active cell phones will exceed the number of people sometime in 2011.

It doesn’t diminish your point, but 300 billion is a bit too high

James

21. Mar, 2010

@Robert

Are you suggesting that animals use cell phones too? The human population doesn’t exceed 7 billion man.

Ninad

23. Mar, 2010

Started off with a 32 MB HDD …i guess i was a bit late, but still feel the nostalgia

rwessel

23. Mar, 2010

A small correction: In 1980, that picture would have been of a string of four *single* density 3380 units (each had a double door on each side). Each unit had two HDAs, of 1.26GB each, each of which was split into two 630MB actuators (so there were four addressable “disks” in each unit). The 16 total addressable devices in a full string made for 10GB.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3380.html

But that just makes the flash even more impressive…

Hank Jones

23. Mar, 2010

They should provide those old IBM HDs to bums as fancy cardboard boxes. Much more waterproof, it wouldn’t keep warm as much though but just put cardboard inside. that’s a fancy bum dwelling if I ever saw one

axelrod

23. Mar, 2010

What no one mentioned is the utility cost to run the 1980 unit. They generated enough heat to literally heat your house. Remember, all computer rooms had to be kept at low temps.

So, imagine the difference in cost of electric. I don’t have any hard data, but I bet it was at least $1,000/month for the 1980 equipment, and under $1 for the SD Card today!!!!

Tobias

24. Mar, 2010

This is just great. The development has progressed in recent years.

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inspector Fu

31. Mar, 2010

“There are more than 303 billion cell phone users in the world at the present time. ”

Spammers: they are smart.

macguider

01. Apr, 2010

nice picture. I had 2.5 GB drive too, but in the late 90s

Spets

04. Apr, 2010

The fact that there are 303 billion cellphone users cannot be true since there are only close to 6 billion of people on earth. It is funny when people take an interesting fact (ie. with IBM and memory) and than makeup outrageous story hoping that someone would believe it’s validity

keenan

08. Apr, 2010

i predict in the future computers will be twice as powerful and 10,000 times the size and so expensive that only the five richest kings of europe will be able to afford them

Arthur Pearson

15. Apr, 2010

In 1983 I was storing data on Commodore 64 floppies. It took 6 to hold a megabyte, 6,000 for a gigabyte, or 6,000.000 for a terabyte! A PC with 8GB has 128.000, times as much RAM as a C64. The clock speed of my PC is 373,000 times faster than a C64, Yet the Easy Script word processor had no problem keeping up with my typing. No matter what resources your computer has, Microsoft can find a way to squander them.

Matthew James

20. Apr, 2010

Yeah but at least the IBM one had wheels. that’s something you’ll never get these days with your memory sticks.

Terry Wagar

20. Apr, 2010

My computer has a trillobyte, so I think that means mine is the best.

Clarkson

21. Apr, 2010

“Nice, but useless until we invent a time machine to take us back to 1980.”

You sir, are an idiot. Speaking of useless… how about that empty space in your cranial area?

chris

25. Apr, 2010

“My computer has a trillobyte, so I think that means mine is the best.”

so im guessing your computer looks something like this?
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k182/deathonrye666/TRILOBITE-1.png

computers have terrabytes btw.

Dach

30. Apr, 2010

Right now, Amazon has 4GB cards for $5.19. So, 20GB would cost $21, and still weigh less than an ounce.

durakavalyaem

26. May, 2010

Steve Jobs

Let’s start with the man who co-founded Apple in 1976, left the company in 1985, then came back and saved the day in 1997.

1991:

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

1994, while he was obviously not working at Apple:

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

1996, on Bill Gates:

I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

1997, on Apple products:

The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore!

2003, a modest comment on the iPod and iTunes:

It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!

2006, on Microsoft:

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

2007, on his $1 annual salary:

I make fifty cents for showing up … and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

Bill Gates

Now on to the man who co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and later became the richest man in the world.

1980:

There’s nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

1983:

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

1984:

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

1987:

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

1991:

If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

1993:

The Internet? We are not interested in it.

1995:

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

1996, on the oft-quoted “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time… I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough.

1998:

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don’t evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, ‘how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?’

1998, memo to the Office product group:

One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people’s browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.

2001:

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that.

2004:

Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.

Linus Torvalds

Finally, the man who in 1991 started to work on what would become Linux.

1991:

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

1996:

Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

1998:

My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

2001:

Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?

2003:

Really, I’m not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

2006:

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

2006:

Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I’m flexible, and not black-and-white.)

2007:

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

2008:

Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can’t stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

Florence

05. Jun, 2010

my first hdd was 4.3 gb. the next one i bought was 30 gb parallel ata (that one is still alive and running, year 2000 make); lastly i am with 2×80gb one of them gone dead few days back

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