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Originally Posted by gary
It is therefore interesting to reflect how much 4GB of memory would have cost
in late 1977 if one had purchased it in the same form as appeared in the
advertisement.
Firstly, it would equate to 262,144 of those memory cards and would have cost
in excess of a staggering US$127.1 million dollars.
By comparison, in 1977, Cray Research's first customer paid only US$8.86 million for
their Cray 1 supercomputer which had a 80MHz clock speed but with a vector architecture.
The increases in performance and the phenomenal decreases in price of
computing in a space of only 34 years seem staggering, but when one considers
that this trend is projected to continue for some time, it is positively mind boggling
to say the least what the future holds.  |
It was only 2 years ago I first heard about a 'Terrabyte' and thought "no way, nothing is that's huge!".
And yet here I am, those 2 years later, casually saving my images onto a $89 1.5 Terrabyte hard drive here at home, non plussed
