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The History of Digital Storage

On April 5th, 2013, posted in: Computers, infographics, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

Do you remember saving up a few dollars to purchase some new floppy disk drives? I can remember a time thinking I got the deal of the decade when I purchased a box of them for what amounted to $1 a disk….for 1.5 Mb of memory. Today we are purchasing gigabytes for less. Here..

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The History of Digital Storage

On November 5th, 2011, posted in: Computers, Posts & Occasional Rants by Daniel0 Comment

In this day and age when we carry many gigabytes of storage on the mobile phones in our pockets, we forget it wasn’t all that long ago a few megabytes of digital storage seemed pretty cool and cost many hundreds of dollars too. Of course, carrying that amount of data around in your pocket would..