After the catastrophic crash of my computer last week, I decided to purchase a new mass storage device.
I purchased a one terrabyte external hard drive for about a hundred bucks. Wow, that's an unbelievable ten cents a GIGABYTE!
I remember purchasing one megabyte of RAM back it 1990. I thought that I got a good deal as I paid $164 dollars for the four 256K modules. The single 3.5 inch drive that I bought today contains as much memory as FOUR MILLION of those old memory modules!
And although one terrabyte of storage seems like a lot now, I am certain that it will be thought of as small when a one petabyte drive becomes available. That's a thousand trerrabytes! And in case you're wondering, next is exabytes, zettabytes and yottabytes.
I wonder what I'll live to see in my lifetime! It's positively exhilarating!
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