640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981
I saw an ad today for one of the new 1Terabyte hard drives. I glanced over at the little Mac SE on the shelf next to my current computer. This one came from a yard sale several years ago but it is the same model as the first computer I ever used back in the mid eighties. At that time I thought it was the greatest thing since, well I'm not sure what that would be but it was great. I could not believe how much information it would hold. And at the time, before Internet by the way, I thought it did everything very fast.
Fast forward to the present time. I have a little flash drive on my key chain with more memory than my first three computer's hard drives combined.
The computer I am using now has a Core2 duo cpu, mega RAM, a 1GB video card and it is connected to a cable modem. I think it, click the mouse, and I am there. But what is a little disturbing is that my current system (and we built this one less than a year ago) is already obsolete.
It is never enough. I want it all and I want it now.
I want a computer to have more memory, be faster, and take up less space. I want tomorrow's technology today (or when the prices get low enough that I can afford it and still be able to buy groceries).
In 1981 Bill Gates said 640K ought to be enough for anyone.
Let's see, if
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabytes
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
etc.
640K should be enough? Sorry to tell you Bill, but you were wrong. Of course you've figured that out by now. Now if you could just do something about Vista.
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4 comments:
LOL ... I hear ya ... loud and clear.
These things are not supposed to keep up .... we always need to spend more money and more time. Soon, we won't even have to turn it on ourselves .... it will do it on remote command .....ahhhhhhhh!
I just found this, and thought that you might get a kick out of it:
ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and is 50,000 times faster.
Christine,
My hubby and I are always upgrading our computers and it just never seems to be enough. I keep the little Mac around for sentimental reasons(my first time) and also as a cute antique.
I saw one of those monster computers one time, can't remember where probably a museum of sorts, it was enormous.
SQ
I bought my latest fully loaded MacBook Pro and a new model came out 5 weeks later!!! ARRRRGH!
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