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Posted by Smarty on 02/25/07 18:21
"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote in message
news:mn.b3d07d7285645a35.1980@nobody.invalid...
> 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:
>>
>> 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)
> letters617blochg3251
> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
>
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