Moores Law

droopsnoot

rmg1 wrote: »

I was given an 80GB HDD some time ago. It's an IDE one but is still usable. I dropped it into a caddy and it was still accessible (but that was months ago).

Sadly I still recall buying our first IDE 1Gb hard disk for a development machine in work, at just under £500.

kwikbreaks

So what will we have storage wise in another 10 years and what will it cost?

The thing I found most strange about that old invoice was just how short a time ago it was.

droopsnoot

kwikbreaks wrote: »

So what will we have storage wise in another 10 years and what will it cost?

Well, with cloud storage we're already heading to a point where you won't actually have storage locally, it'll all be looked after elsewhere. That'll be on a subscription model because one of the biggest problems with selling computer hardware is that it gets better, faster, bigger and cheaper very quickly, so the manufacturers can't make enough to cover development costs. Same with software - MS or whoever can keep on bringing out new versions of the software, but if your Office 97 does what you need and carries on working, why would you upgrade? So back again to subscriptions, which were once common in the mainframe and bureau days in any case.

Jivesinger

I think Moore's law is starting to slow down a bit now though.
You can only halve the size of things so many tines before the physics goes a bit wibbly-wobbly.

rmg1

droopsnoot wrote: »

Sadly I still recall buying our first IDE 1Gb hard disk for a development machine in work, at just under £500.

My first ever desktop was on DOS3.1 and had a massive 32MB HDD.
It couldn't read hi-density disks (I think) so I couldn't upgrade to Dos 5. I also remeber it had 640KB of RAM.

Programmers knew how to do things properly back in the day (I know, I sound like an old fart now).

rmg1

Jivesinger wrote: »

I think Moore's law is starting to slow down a bit now though.
You can only halve the size of things so many tines before the physics goes a bit wibbly-wobbly.

Very true.
I think they've already made a start on an organic version somewhere.

paddyrg

Jivesinger wrote: »

I think Moore's law is starting to slow down a bit now though.
You can only halve the size of things so many tines before the physics goes a bit wibbly-wobbly.

Indeed I watched a Computerphile earlier which mentioned the 14nm scale dies (current bleeding edge) - and that's like 50 ATOMS resolution! There's not far to go in the current direction!

J_B

rmg1 wrote: »

My first ever desktop was on DOS3.1 and had a massive 32MB HDD.

HDD?

No way - Apple 2e with twin 5" floppy drives

Johnmcl7

I bought the new Doom game and noticed Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3 in the Steam list so I wondered was that the old or new Doom - I clicked the install option and was prompted to accept the 65GB install marking it definitely as the new Doom while the original was listed as Ultimate Doom.

65GB is one of the largest current games but thinking back it's a small fraction of the space compared to Quake, I had to take that on and off the hard drive as its huge 100MB install took up so much of the 850MB hard drive.

John

baza52

I remember paying £50 for a 15k memory upgrade for my old ZX81.
That's over £3400 for 1Mb