New high tech data storage device!

[Knuckles]

http://fukung.net/images/2552/harddrive.jpg

[Allnatural]

Cool. For a paltry $5,011,830 I'd have enough storage for all my mp3s.

[A.I.]

Lol! I wonder how many suckers got a 10 MB hardrive sitting in their basement wishing they never bought it?

[smcd]

Lol! I wonder how many suckers got a 10 MB hardrive sitting in their basement wishing they never bought it?

Hi I'm from the future and writing this from my brain implant that has 50PB (petabyte) onboard that I paid $37 for - haha you paid $150 for a 500GB drive!!!11shift1

[A.I.]

Hi I'm from the future and writing this from my brain implant that has 50PB (petabyte) onboard that I paid $37 for - haha you paid $150 for a 500GB drive!!!11shift1

Oh dear... Do you take credit? :P

[Toasty]

Hi I'm from the future and writing this from my brain implant that has 50PB (petabyte) onboard that I paid $37 for - haha you paid $150 for a 500GB drive!!!11shift1
If you have a brain implant then why can't you just store your data in the 99.9% of the brain that humans don't use? Hmmm? You wasted $37 on the extra 50 PB me thinks... :rolleyes:

[A.I.]

If you have a brain implant then why can't you just store your data in the 99.9% of the brain that humans don't use? Hmmm? You wasted $37 on the extra 50 PB me thinks... :rolleyes:

Um, how many MB's in a Petabyte? Or is that measured in cats and dogs? :D

[Sasuke3.0]

Um, how many MB's in a Petabyte? Or is that measured in cats and dogs? :D

its nothing compared to my 250YB (Yottabyte) harddrive :P

[Toasty]

Um, how many MB's in a Petabyte? Or is that measured in cats and dogs? :D
1,000,000,000 (or 1,073,741,824 if you use 2^10 as a base instead of 10^3).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte

[BlueFalcon7]

1,000,000,000 (or 1,073,741,824 if you use 2^10 as a base instead of 10^3).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte

Yes, just a little elaboration though:
The computer operates in binary, which is base 2. We as humans (usually) are in base 10 also known as decimal. That makes "kilo" have a value of 1024 instead of 1,000. Thats also why 40 GB hard drives only have 37.2. Because they have 40 billion bytes. But when you measure that in base 2, thats 37.2 GB.

[Knuckles]

...this went far....

[smcd]

Hehe, it was a funny picture though, much like the early "now own a computer in your very own home, only $9999" or whatever, and them being half the size of a compact car. :) It's amazing really

[Allnatural]

Hehe, it was a funny picture though, much like the early "now own a computer in your very own home, only $9999" or whatever, and them being half the size of a compact car. :) It's amazing really
Yup, much like this classic:

[Cyberman]

Well all things become obsolete etc. The interesting thing is a lot of Tandy stuff.. stunk. It's too bad they killed there business instead of evolving it along with everyone else :D

Cyb

[A.I.]

Lol, Tandy is still alive and kicking (just) down under. They're part of Dick Smith Electronics *Booming voice* POWER HOUSE stores which are all over Australia.

There is also Dick Smith Foods. *Cheesy voice* Got a sore throat? Well try 'Dicks True Blue Throat Lozenges', great for overworked porn stars!

And no, I don't work for Dick...

[thepreserver]

Speaking of these absurd prices of the old days, hard drive prices have considerably dropped since the year 2006. You can get a 500 GB internal hard drive for like $119.99 or so. Maybe less.

[NES_player4LIFE]

yes they are getting cheaper

look what i found

[Coredo]

That... is so sweet... *drool*

Damn, I need to start saving some money.

[BlueFalcon7]

In my opinion of all of this whole computer technology evolving. Look at the grand scheme of things, and you will see that technology now is not that much different than from the 80s. And look at the 60s, its better now, but still much different. All were in, is another "industrial revolution" if you will. They invented the microprocessor, and it has been expanded into what we know of today. They have had pretty much all the hardware we have in the 80s, just a bit more powerful, and a little more efficient.

However, the major difference between now and the 80s, is that the computer has been way more commercialized. Eventually this whole computer revolution will slow down. You won't have to upgrade your computer every few years, and it will be a more worthwhile investment. As for now, I don't see it slowing down too much any time soon.

The major technological breakthroughs are people who take the technology that exists today, and commercialize it.