#Memories#Technology Ben brought home an old IBM Thinkpad laptop from school yesterday. The school was getting rid of it and Ben said he would like to have it.
He hooked it up and was showing it to us and we got into a fun discussion about what computers were like “back in the day”. This is a phrase Ben uses to hint that his Dad is an antique.
A & B thought it was hilarious that my first computer in the early 80s only had 64K of memory and was loaded by a cassette tape.
I told them I once got a new computer that had one megabyte of RAM and a ten megabyte hard drive and thought I would never need more than that. And that it didn’t have a mouse either.
Aaron mentioned he has a terabyte hard drive and would never need anything bigger and we all laughed. Who knows what will be going on in another decade.
MjL 14 Nov 2009, 4:25 a.m.
MjL 14 Nov 2009, 6:46 a.m.
#Technology By the next decade, we’ll probably all be using petabytes, standard. I suspect, however, that over time we will go back down slightly, because I’m sure someone out there will make formats for games, music, and videos, that take up less space.
Of course, then people could just keep getting the giant hard drives and put more stuff on them
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