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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 02/23/07 00:16
On 2/22/2007, Jan Panteltje posted this:
> On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:14:30 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje
> <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in <erktje$h07$1@news.datemas.de>:
>
>> Now let's extrapolate a bit:
>> In the 1980 ties we were at 10MB for a harddisk.
>> Now, say 20 years later, we are at 500 MB.
>
> Oops, bit of an error, should be 500 GB :-)
> So, 50000 x increase in 20 years....
> Extrapolating this means the 10 TB drive must already be on sale this week,
> OK lemme google for it:
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> http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/17/seagate-claims-world-record-for-magnetic-recording-density/
> http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=70012
>
> hehe
My favorite part of this (besides the amazement!) was their comment
about "more space than anyone could possibly need, ever" - plus their
reason for it...
And Gene's reply to you reminds me of a discussion I had around 1980
with a folk-dance teacher, also a techie. I said that someday our
entire folk-dance music repertoire would fit into a 1" cube. He said
"No way!". Today my iPod holds more music than his entire folk-dance
record collection, but he was right - it's not a 1" cube :-)
--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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