Back in 1987 when I finished delivering dustbins and got my first job in ‘computing’, it was with an international food company. We ran several of the subdivisions of that company on a Hewlett Packard 3000 centralised mini-computer. It was about 5m x 1.5m x 1m (including 2 service bays where you plugged everything in) and had a massive 8 megabytes of memory. We ran stock control, sales order processing, sales/purchase/nominal ledgers and sales-budgets on it for all those subdivisions. There was a whole separate sub-company of people to maintain and administer this thing.
The disk storage was 5 x 404 megabyte rather large disk drives (total = 2.2Gb) Each was about the size of a washing machine and vibrated more than a washing machine on full spin with a brick in it to make it wobble more. It took over 25 x 12” reel to reel tapes to back it all up
I have just upgraded Johnno’s Sony PSP to 2 gigabytes – the memory chip was the size of a small stamp.
Frightening – innit?
The disk storage was 5 x 404 megabyte rather large disk drives (total = 2.2Gb) Each was about the size of a washing machine and vibrated more than a washing machine on full spin with a brick in it to make it wobble more. It took over 25 x 12” reel to reel tapes to back it all up
I have just upgraded Johnno’s Sony PSP to 2 gigabytes – the memory chip was the size of a small stamp.
Frightening – innit?
posted by Toa Likhan at 9:49 am
2 Comments:
Oh yes scary times.
Just think what it will be like in another 20 years time, presuming that is we haven't fucked the planet up proper like by then.
I've just chucked 2gb in my phone - and its smaller than my thumbnail. Very scary. And to think we used to have 20mb hdds which we thought we'd never fill!
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