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Originally Posted by Schumi
The first major upgrade I remember buying for a computer to try and keep it 'up with the times' was adding a second hard drive to my circa~1993 Packard Bell computer.
The operating system was on a 100 MB drive I believe, and I spent a boat load of money to buy a hard drive - can't remember if it was a 3.5" or a 5" drive at that time... that was 600 MB.
I thought... six times as much memory... I'll never fill that up. It was full within a few months.
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Back in the day before Control Data was bought several times and ended up as Seagate they came in out shop with an old microwave sized hard drive and a huge box of floppies and a 5.25 inch one gig hard drive and one of the first prototype 3.5 inch one GIG hard drives. We put it all in the studio to photograph one the comparisons of just what one gigabyte was. The one gig hard drive eventually went on sale for almost two grand. I can remember at the time I had a 32 MB hard drive and I could only dream of an entire gigabyte.
Now my cell phone has 64 gig of memory. My home computer has terabyte of mirrored drives. I download the Windows updates yesterday for one computer and it was over 300 MB. It was years before I even had a 300 MB hard drive on my system and now we download that as a freakin update!
It is really astonishing how far we have come in a few years. My 4.77 MHz 8086 running Dos 1.1 was a start point, and so many orders of magnitude away from my i7 8 core CPU and 32 gig of memory.