Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:42:52 PM
"I'm fairly certain all of that will fit in my pocket nowadays."
Yeah- and for a couple hundred bucks. A Droid or an iPhone (or pretty much any other smartphone) can do just about everything that the machines in this pic can do. Unless you want to get specific- A smartphone cannot play betamax tapes.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:22:55 PM
"I'm fairly certain all of that will fit in my pocket nowadays."
Yeah- and for a couple hundred bucks. A Droid or an iPhone (or pretty much any other smartphone) can do just about everything that the machines in this pic can do. Unless you want to get specific- A smartphone cannot play betamax tapes.
Monday, March 29, 2010 8:46:00 PM
For the record, when I was at College, the entire State Govt system ran off a Vax PDP11/34 with 10MB storage, costing millions.
My first hard drive was a 20MB, which cost $3,500 - equivalent to about $20,000 now.
Right now, I have 22TB of storage on the desk beside the computer and drat-knows how much on the 3,500 CD's and DVD`s I have. That 22TB cost about $3,500.
So - roughly, 1 million times the storage for the same cost.