Electronics get smaller over time, A LOT smaller!

Jul 22, 2025 12:27 PM

DacianFalx

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TIL IBM was a shipping company in 1956.

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Or @op ‘s mom’s midnight snack

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Rough math in my head calculates 5mb = 15-20 seconds of SD video .... How close am i

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I had a 20 mb hard drive that was the size of a square Pyrex dish in the mid-90s.

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And what did it cost? Probably a lot? Anybody?

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At least 3.

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You are correct. A LOT!

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US$3,200 (equivalent to $35,800 in 2024) per month (Wikipedia)

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Today we can fit 2,000,000 of these on a NAND flash chip the size of my thumb nail.

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You'll probably crush it though.

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My first PC was a beast with a 40mb hard drive.

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