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Linus's PetaByte video reminded me of this photo I have hanging in my cubical. 

 

I asked some guys around the office, and they said that these were probably late seventies/ early eighties ads (those dollars from say 1980 to 2017 is about $10,500!!!!)

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6 minutes ago, AmazingRez97 said:

now thats what i called "future-proofing"

Maybe we could build a rocket ship and fly it really far away ?

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They keep taking it further and are doing well on pricing as the years have gone on. 

 

Supercomputer from the 1960s the CDC 6600 had something like 1-3 MB of storage and was $6,000,000+ or something like that as well. 

 

Shaved off millions on the price and added way more since the 60s. 

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With this constant growing need of games to have uncompressed audio, ultra hd texture packs and a ton of optimization lacking reaching 100gb per game we will soon need 3tb HDD and 1tb SSD on the system to keep up lol

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41 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Linus's PetaByte video reminded me of this photo I have hanging in my cubical. 

 

I asked some guys around the office, and they said that these were probably late seventies/ early eighties ads (those dollars from say 1980 to 2017 is about $10,500!!!!)

Cd1kpWMUsAAJGUF.jpg

If memory serves, the Radio Shack ad is for an add on for the TRS-80. What I do remember for sure, I saved my allowance and lawn mowing money all summer so I could buy an internal hard drive for my TRS-80. It was a whole 2mb and I paid almost $600 for it. It was great to be able to boot it right up without having a floppy in the drive.

 

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I remember my aunt not being able to install AOL on her windows 95 computer because she didnt have enough space lol.

 

At this point, its better safe than sorry for me. I'm sitting at too much memory, more than half of it already filled. 

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I remember my aunt not being able to install AOL on her windows 95 computer because she didnt have enough space lol.

 

At this point, its better safe than sorry for me. I'm sitting at too much memory, more than half of it already filled. 

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Consider this: back then office files and programs were mostly a few KB in size and digital photography and video wasn't a thing. So using up 15MB of storage wasn't an easy feat.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

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