And for the general consumer, there is now this for hard disk space….2 terabytes (2,000 gigabytes). Not so long ago, only huge corporations could afford the purchase and maintenance costs. Now, a regular guy who is into movies could get one of these.
I go back a ways – I started with computers with an Olivetti 101 mag stripe card reader programmable CALCULATOR back in high school. Then we got a DEC PDP 8-e, and I learned BASIC, FORTRAN, and FOCAL. Storage was a magnetic drum and REAL magnetic core for ram (yup, the progenisis of a "core dump").
First computer was an Apple II+ with 64K RAM and two floppy drives. Next was a Fat Mac with 1MB RAM and two 5.24" floppies. And I persuaded The Most Esteemed Wife to allow me the luxury of getting an external 40MB SCSI-2 hard drive.
For the never-to-use-all-that-storage-of 40MB, I paid $1500 back in the 80’s.
This 2TB (2K Gigabytes) beastie is only ~$2K.
I like progress… um, TMEW, can we talk??? (H/T: Gizmodo)
