Moores Law

stockton_2

John_Gray wrote: »

I bought a 28 MB USB Flash drive from a colleague for about £20, ever so many years ago, and it still works! You can't do much now in 28 MB, though.

Tesco are currently selling a "Back to Skool" 16 GB flash drive for £3.50...

Friend of mine just bought a 16 Gb flash drive in Asda today for £5. She thought that was unbeatable.

Strider590

^^ Try a USB 3.1, 64GB flash drive for £12....... And we're not talking some cheap unbranded junk.

buglawton

One thing's proven: Storage is cheap enough for people to store every email they've ever processed!

Predictions that Moore's Law will hit the buffers real soon now are rife due to the physical limits mentioned. I think we'll be confounded and Moore's Law will continue marching over the horizon.

keith969

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

28MB for £20 looks like a bargain.

Up until quite recently I still had a 10Mb hard disk I bought in 1987 for about £400 at the time for an Atari 1040ST.

droopsnoot

buglawton wrote: »

One thing's proven: Storage is cheap enough for people to store every email they've ever processed!

True, but finding them again is another matter. Even though I'm on relatively low bandwidth and am conscious of wasting it, I've found myself downloading stuff that I *know* I've already got, just because it's quicker than trying to find it.

buglawton wrote: »

Predictions that Moore's Law will hit the buffers real soon now are rife due to the physical limits mentioned. I think we'll be confounded and Moore's Law will continue marching over the horizon.

I think there's been quite a few people predicting that Moore's Law can't continue for quite some time, and always someone finds a way.

cookie365

When I were lad if you bought a computer it were made out of gravel. And the memory cost 12000 guinueas and even then you got so little memory it actually made computer forget things.

And to make computer work you had to tie yourself to it wi' a rope, then run round for 200 miles to create enough steam. None o' your fancy ee-leck-tricals in them days. And even then it'd bluddy explode and take yer arm off before it told you anything useful.

Them were proper computers, them, not like your modern ones with all their working things out and surfboarding t'internet.

Just try telling kids of today, they won't believe you.

rmg1

cookie365 wrote: »

When I were lad if you bought a computer it were made out of gravel. And the memory cost 12000 guinueas and even then you got so little memory it actually made computer forget things.

And to make computer work you had to tie yourself to it wi' a rope, then run round for 200 miles to create enough steam. None o' your fancy ee-leck-tricals in them days. And even then it'd bluddy explode and take yer arm off before it told you anything useful.

Them were proper computers, them, not like your modern ones with all their working things out and surfboarding t'internet.

Just try telling kids of today, they won't believe you.

You had a steam-powered version???????
Posh git

zagubov

Back when t'internet was in black-and-white and cheeseburgers cost a penny I had a low-density 720k floppy disk with Photoshop 1.0.

My Mac had 20Mb hard drive and the RAM was about a 1/4 Mb.

It ran Word 5.1 and that's the best version ever.

Computers have changed since then, but I'd not call all the changes improvements.