Think about it, that's enough space for like what, 2 or 3 MP3s? Hell, if it was a really high quality MP3 it may not be enugh space to hold just 1 ^.^
Think how far along we have come...wow.
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Think about it, that's enough space for like what, 2 or 3 MP3s? Hell, if it was a really high quality MP3 it may not be enugh space to hold just 1 ^.^
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yup yup 60 years ago they had no internet and black and white TV with only like 5 channels total.
always fun to think about.
I was reading a study that children of today can learn at a rate of 10-20x faster than children back in the 40s and 50s bc of the internet and ease of access to information.
always fun to think about.
I was reading a study that children of today can learn at a rate of 10-20x faster than children back in the 40s and 50s bc of the internet and ease of access to information.
we can thank Bell Labs for so much of this too. They developed:
the Transistor
C (the programming language)
C++
the Laser
UNIX
TDMA/CDMA cellular technology
Information Theory
Radio Astronomy
the CCD for digital photography
Wireless Networking (WaveLAN)
and more. 7 Nobel Prizes in Physics were awarded to Bell Labs research. A private company doing basic physics research is almost unheard of now sadly.
the Transistor
C (the programming language)
C++
the Laser
UNIX
TDMA/CDMA cellular technology
Information Theory
Radio Astronomy
the CCD for digital photography
Wireless Networking (WaveLAN)
and more. 7 Nobel Prizes in Physics were awarded to Bell Labs research. A private company doing basic physics research is almost unheard of now sadly.
Unfortunately they have only 5-10% of the attention span of kids in the 40s and 50s due to all the info being pumped into them, which means they struggle to apply anything they've learned.
It wasn't that long ago I helped clean some old computers that had 800mb drives. Incredible how much shit has moved on.
It was only about 10/11 years ago when I upgraded to a 450 Pentium 3 with 512 Ram and 8GB HD. It cost me fucking loads. It was the fastest PC money could buy at the time and it was replacing my 266mhz pentium that itself was the benchmark about a year previous!
It was only about 10/11 years ago when I upgraded to a 450 Pentium 3 with 512 Ram and 8GB HD. It cost me fucking loads. It was the fastest PC money could buy at the time and it was replacing my 266mhz pentium that itself was the benchmark about a year previous!
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Think about it, that's enough space for like what, 2 or 3 "Call Of Duty 17" maps? Hell, if it was a really high quality map it may not be enough space to hold just 1 ^.^
This Radio Shack hard drive reminds me of my first computer, a Tandy Level 1 Model 2 with green screen showing block pixel graphics only, ROM based interpreted BASIC, a 'tape drive' (cassette tape player/recorder) and a whopping 8K of RAM. I later bought an upgrade kit that added a further 32K or RAM.
Best program (IMHO) I ever wrote was a BASIC version of the arcade game Scramble where you had to place the monitor on its side as it used the inbuilt carriage return screen scrolling feature to move the background without having to POKE the characters back into the screen buffer.
Those were the days!!!
Best program (IMHO) I ever wrote was a BASIC version of the arcade game Scramble where you had to place the monitor on its side as it used the inbuilt carriage return screen scrolling feature to move the background without having to POKE the characters back into the screen buffer.
Those were the days!!!
You could fit a lot of MIDIs though, jamming to all time favorites like GnR - Sweet child of mine: http://www.mygnr.com/midi/mid55698333234/sweetchi2.mid
Then why are they so fucking stupid?
The computer technology is amazing, but go back a little further and realize that it wasn't very long ago that there was no air conditioning, you heated your place up with a wood burning stove, no refrigeration for food and you had to go hunt your own meals. No planes or cars - going to Vegas from here would take 3 weeks, not 3 hours. No internal plumbing, and no showers. Vaccinations, medications etc. It's amazing to think what people lived like just 100+ years ago.
Ah, brings back memories. I received my first computer in 3rd grade, which was an IBM PS/2 486SX, 4MB RAM, 80MB HD, and I think was running DOS 6.1 with Direct Access. My first upgrades were a CDR drive, and 4MB RAM. My next computer was a Toshiba Satellite laptop, 486DX4 with 8MB RAM. I think after that was a Compaq P90, and then a Compaq PII 450. I started building my own computers after that, until I switched to Mac during my junior year of college.
Anybody ever own a Commodore 64? No hard drive, 5.25" Floppy drive, 300 bps (that's BPS not KBPS) modem, and a dot matrix printer.
