At the CES show this year, Victorinox (yes, the swiss army knife people), are promising a 1 terabyte SSD flash drive, with USB 2.0/3.0 and ESATA connections on it, and a speed of 220MB/s for read, and 150MB/s for write. It has a monochrome LCD screen on it that tells you the status, or shows a message, or even a low res picture.
Someone responded to the story by writing:
 | I can still remember being the first kid on the block to have a computer with a 1 gig hard drive in it. I never dared dream of the day I would fill it, but what I am torrenting at this moment would fill about 20 of them. Today I have a terabyte drive that fits in my back pocket. A terabyte drive in my laptop. And soon there will be a terabyte drive that will fit into that little coin pocket in your jeans that I used to keep TicTacs in back when I first got that 1 gig drive. Hmm, trying to remember back I think I was in 8th grade when we got that computer so that was in the late 1900s some time. How time flies. Now, I am sitting in bed using a laptop that is hooked up to a 58" plasma with a wireless keyboard while moving apps2sd on my phone because that gig is starting to fill up. How romantic this memory is. If only I could write a love letter to technology – I would do so by hand and sign it in the original textese's: Xs and Os. |
Someone else said:
- pfft... I remember being the first in the dorm with a 10Mb hard drive for my PC-XT. I never thought I would fill that up, either... Then, along came Windows.
The original poster asked what it was like to load drivers, which got this response:
- Ahh... sit at my feet, Grasshopper, and I'll explain the mysteries of Extended Memory, Expanded Memory, and how to load HIMEM.SYS..... As quickly as you can, snatch the expansion card from my hand...
Someone else commented:
- If my dad had that he would find a way to fill it with adware and all kinds of other horrible crap within a week.
I decided to respond too....
 | I wrote... Hard drives? I remember the days when my teacher told me I could only use a Memorex brand cassette tape in the cassette drives on our 8K computers. Floppy disks? Didn't have one of those until a couple of years later, 180K seemed like a huge amount of space, we were lucky enough to have a dual 8" floppy unit donated to the school, it was almost as big as the original IBM PC (which came just a couple of years later), and had an extra box on the side to make the floppy drive shared between four computers since we couldn't afford a floppy drive for each computer.... |
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