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Just as an aside, yesterday my wife was out and stopped by an electronics store. She called me at home from her cell phone and asked me if there was anything I wanted her to pick up. Without thinking I said "Yea Sweetie, pick me up a 4 Gig flashdrive." I knew they had them on sale for about $10.00. Then I remembered.

Back in the early 90's I subscribed to a number of computer publications and I used to pick up those free-be computer newspapers that had all those "great buys" listed here in the LA area. Geeze, it seemed like there was a computer store or something on each corner. And ... I was in love with all those damned gadgets. I will never forget one day in one of those free-be newspapers there was an ad for a new storage device ... a WORM drive. It was a 1 Gigabyte drive (at the time an unheard of amount of storage space) that was Write Once, Read Many Times. In other words you could write on it but then you couldn't erase it ... it was there forever ... but there was a whole Gigabyte worth of space!!! And the price of this magical device? Only $3,000.00 bucks !!! Yep, only 3 Grand for a brand new One Gig external drive. I drooled all over the damned paper. How times and technology have changed ...


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Just as an aside, yesterday my wife was out and stopped by an electronics store. She called me at home from her cell phone and asked me if there was anything I wanted her to pick up. Without thinking I said "Yea Sweetie, pick me up a 4 Gig flashdrive." I knew they had them on sale for about $10.00. Then I remembered.

Back in the early 90's I subscribed to a number of computer publications and I used to pick up those free-be computer newspapers that had all those "great buys" listed here in the LA area. Geeze, it seemed like there was a computer store or something on each corner. And ... I was in love with all those damned gadgets. I will never forget one day in one of those free-be newspapers there was an ad for a new storage device ... a WORM drive. It was a 1 Gigabyte drive (at the time an unheard of amount of storage space) that was Write Once, Read Many Times. In other words you could write on it but then you couldn't erase it ... it was there forever ... but there was a whole Gigabyte worth of space!!! And the price of this magical device? Only $3,000.00 bucks !!! Yep, only 3 Grand for a brand new One Gig external drive. I drooled all over the damned paper. How times and technology have changed ...


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You're right Don. The amount of space that's available to us now would have blown our minds 15 or so years ago. Sitting on my desk I have a 500GB and a 1TB external drive and my computer has a 320 GB drive.

My first PC in 1991 has 50 MB with a 16 MHz processor. Before that I had a ColecoVision ADAM computer that stored info on tapes.
 
I just recently had a 'flashback' of sorts just like this. I own a 2 gigabyte usb Stick, a few years ago that thing was top notch and the capacity of storage seemed amazing. Monday I saw an 16 gigabyte usb device for 15€...bought it, and I'm still baffled... My first Computer was a c64, then an Amiga 500...now my quadcore can 'emulate' both of these systems without even breaking a sweat.It is amazing, and the growth in the technology field is just staggering.
 
I just think of my iPod - I carry a ton of music on there, along with videos and podcasts. I would have never imagined anything like that when I dragging around my Walkman in the late 80s and early 90s.
 
I think about this kind of stuff time to time...it's kind of funny when my Palm Treo (an outdated phone no doubt) has more processing power, memory, and better graphics than my first 3 or 4 computers combined.

My first computer was an SX64 portable.

If I had back all the money I spent on obsoleted computers, I'd probably spend it on new computers which would soon be obsolete. ::)
 
I live in Microsoft land and socialize with a number of Microsoft employees. They have these information events, as many companies do, where different groups set up tables and have freebies to lure people to their booth. One table was giving away 4 Gig thumb-drives, in a big bowl, reach in and help yourself.
 
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