Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 01/29/07 21:28

On 1/29/2007, Bill Vermillion posted this:

<Paper Reduction Activity>

> Pushing Usenet news around - primarily by UUCP over phones - except
> for two large local engineering groups who had a 56 line - most of
> us in the Orlando area moved to Telebit modems that gave us
> 18Kbit/sec transfer rates [later about 22Kb] long before the
> first 9600 bps modem was available for sale. Since we all had
> registered UUCP domain names we got them at 1/2 price at $650 each.
>
> The next year I saw my first 9600 BPS modem. From BT [British
> Telecom] . $5000 US.
>
> Bill

Ouch.

Just yesterday, reading the Sunday paper ads, I noticed a 300GB hard
drive for $80, so in a fit of reminiscence I compared its $/MB to my
first hard drive: 10 MB, $800.

I came up with a factor 3,000,000, but then I checked my work, and
realized it was *only* 300,000 (that's the problem with computing in my
head). This much change in maybe 22 or 24 years.

The performance is improved some too, but not that much :-)

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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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