Pic: One gigabyte over 20 years
- Date: September 26th, 2007
- Author: Jay Garmon
- Category: Gadgets, Geekend, History
- Tags: Jay Garmon
One the left, a one gigabyte IBM hard drive circa 1987. On the right, a one gigabyte SD card circa the last sale at Best Buy, before they got all the latest Micro-SD stuff in stock. Twenty years equals about twenty pounds from the looks of things. Found via Forever Geek.
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A little more than 20lbs.. more like 80
j-braden@... | 09/28/07
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Terabyte
jwaasdorp@... | 10/04/07
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RE: Pic: One gigabyte over 20 years
tradergeorge | 09/28/07
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Banking in the 80's
RacerxV6 | 09/28/07
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RE: Pic: One gigabyte over 20 years
processing@... | 09/28/07
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Try 40 years
techrepublic.com@... | 09/28/07
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Those were the days my friend
williaa6@... | 09/30/07
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