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datora:
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This topic got me to thinking About Stuff:
> The Lounge > Noob Days...
Back in the dinosaur days of 1999, I worked & lectured on the main campus of a major State University. About 35,000 students and about another 20,000 professors, teachers, staff & such. I helped with maintenance of the entire user directory system for the campus ... all email, user data, etc. for everyone that was stored on their university accounts.
We performed an upgrade to the main storage array of hard drives, in which the total space available was a staggering 2 terabytres of space, with all standard accounts getting upgraded from 30 MB of locker to 50 MB of locker. It was a project that took several technicians and thousands of dollars over a three-day weekend to implement.
I now have 2 x 2 TB hard drives in a single, external housing. As one of my storage solutions. About 65%-70% of that 3.64 TB of formatted capacity is filled with anime and music. I swap 2 TB drives in and out of the enclosure in under five minutes, and am watching, lustfully, the newer 3 TB drives for advances and stability.
Another example: I used to have four large-ish briefcases filled with 1.44 mb floppy diskettes on which I backed up all my data and software. They were purchased cheaply at pawn shops and were ideal for protection & transport. There were even a dozen or so precious 100 MB ZIP drive disks tucked in there. My CD storage solution was a different system, and burnable DVDs were a technology still being invented.
Last week I placed a single micro-SDHC chip, literally the size of the fingernail on my pinkie, into my digital camera. 16 gigabyte capacity ... probably 16x or 20x the total data storage in those four briefcases. If I sneeze at the wrong moment, I could lose that micro-SDHC in the carpet, maybe never to be found until a vacuum sucks it up.
What examples you guys got ...? They could be anything, not necessarily technology like mine.
Soryon:
I know alot of things change and improve, but as far as computers go, I still remember how cool I thought it was the first time I played a computer game that had colors other then black and shades of green. Oh, and running everything in DOS.
Edit- I also remember this old ass printer my parents had when I was a kid. All the sheets were connected and it ran thru this wheel that caught the little holes on the side of the pages. Also, it was REALLY loud and slow.
NaRu:
First Computer
IBM (1995)
CPU: Intel pentium 160MGhz
RAM: 16MB SIM
HDD: 1GB
Second Computer
Toshiba (laptop) (1997)
CPU Intel pentium Pro 300MGhz
RAM: 32MB
HDD: 2GB
Third Computer
DELL (desktop) (2000)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz
RAM: 384MB Rambus
HDD: 20GB
Fourth Computer
First built (2002)
CPU: AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
RAM: 256MB SD
HDD: 40GB
Fifth Computer
Second Built (2003)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB SD
HDD 120GB
Sixth Computer
third Built (2004)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz
RAM 1GB DDR
HDD 160GB
Seventh Computer
fourth Built (2005)
CPU Intel Pentium D 2.8Ghz
RAM 1GB DDR2
HDD 250GB
8th Computer
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
HDD 1TB (many drives)
9th Computer
CPU Intel Quad Core 2.8Ghz
RAM 2GB DDR2
HDD +1TB (many drives)
10th Computer
CPU Intel Quad Core Extreme 3.6GHZ
RAM 4GB DDR2
HDD 2TB (many drives)
11th Computer
Current system
CPU Intel i7 920 3.6GHz
RAM 12GB DDR3
HDD 5.7TB (5 drives)
kitamesume:
i dunno, so many "delays" and "postpone" going on with intel and amd. gpu doesn't have much news now a days. hdd isn't getting any grand improvements anymore either since after they introduced SSD.
so i`m stuck with an i3-2100, celeron E3300, athlon II X4 640, sempron 140. a few pentium4s and 3s in the attic, the pentium2s and 1s have been disposed off a long time ago.
PS: my first computer was a calculator, seriously.
Kyrdua:
--- Quote from: NaRu on June 26, 2011, 04:47:16 PM --- (click to show/hide)First Computer
IBM (1995)
CPU: Intel pentium 160MGhz
RAM: 16MB SIM
HDD: 1GB
Second Computer
Toshiba (laptop) (1997)
CPU Intel pentium Pro 300MGhz
RAM: 32MB
HDD: 2GB
Third Computer
DELL (desktop) (2000)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz
RAM: 384MB Rambus
HDD: 20GB
Fourth Computer
First built (2002)
CPU: AMD Thunderbird 1Ghz
RAM: 256MB SD
HDD: 40GB
Fifth Computer
Second Built (2003)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB SD
HDD 120GB
Sixth Computer
third Built (2004)
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz
RAM 1GB DDR
HDD 160GB
Seventh Computer
fourth Built (2005)
CPU Intel Pentium D 2.8Ghz
RAM 1GB DDR2
HDD 250GB
8th Computer
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz
RAM 2GB DDR2
HDD 1TB (many drives)
9th Computer
CPU Intel Quad Core 2.8Ghz
RAM 2GB DDR2
HDD +1TB (many drives)
10th Computer
CPU Intel Quad Core Extreme 3.6GHZ
RAM 4GB DDR2
HDD 2TB (many drives)
11th Computer
Current system
CPU Intel i7 920 3.6GHz
RAM 12GB DDR3
HDD 5.7TB (5 drives)
--- End quote ---
EDIT:
caught up with my memory now. TURNTABLES!!
back in the 1990's we still used turntables. i believe we also had walkmans back then too. i guess my family just kept the huge table-like turntable for nostalgia's sake. my memory of it is foggy, but i believe it also had a spacious compartment for stuff which took about 3/4's of it's size.
around year 2000 my brother had a walkman. that thing was to be hi-tech for us who only had them bulky 3 lb radio players.
soon after this thing called "mp3" players started appearing. didn't interest me at first because i preferred cheap portable radio receivers or whatever you call them. then the cool kids started donning these things called ipod (pronounced eeh-pawd)
and i said "fuck it" and upgraded to an mp3 capable phone. t'was pretty useless though because of it's small memory ad i was still rather ignorant about computers. now i'm using a hand-me-down ipod shuffle 3G. and it's still rather useless at the moment because icbf'ed to install the bloated PoS known as iTunes.
with that said, i also saw cellphones evolve. from motorola's brick sized ones with LCD display to nokia's smaller LCD phones to monochrome touchscreens and finally modern stuff with plenty of bells and whistles.
still amazes me at how fast these things improve over the years.
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