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DriveSavers takes us down harddrive memory lane

DriveSavers has this setup in their booth. In 1985 for $40,000 you got 40MB of storage that was far from portable. Today $400 will net you a tiny will 6GB drive.
The future is now!

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Charles Miller said 1:33AM on 1-12-2006
Cory Doctorow: "Follow the storage performance/size/capacity/price trendline out 10 or 15 years, and we get to the hard-drive that John Gilmores been describing: the size of a sugar-cube, costing $1-2, powered off of the occassional hard shake, and capacious enough to store every word ever uttered, every song ever sung, every painting ever painted, every movie ever shot, and every word ever written, at a resolution that can be magnified into the microscale without distortion."
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Charles Miller said 4:13AM on 1-12-2006
I also suspect they're exaggerating just a little for promotional effect. In 1987, a brand new Mac II would set you back $5500, and incuded a 40MB 5.25" hard drive.
Maybe they meant 1975?
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dave said 9:53AM on 1-12-2006
2006 - 6GB for $400?!?!?
I believe you can get a *bit* more than 6GB for $400 now...
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Andrew Ferguson said 9:02PM on 1-12-2006
Actually, the future was yesterday. I'm not quite sure what that makes today, but the future was definitely yesterday.
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