On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 02:24:24AM +0000, King Beowulf wrote:
> It still feels weird to me how cheap storage has become.  My first HD 
> out of pocket was 30 MB and cost ~$400 IIRC around '94? so I could 
> install Slackware and Win3.1/DOS dual boot.

$2000 for a 60MB ST-506 SVR4 Unix drive years before that.

That said, the human genome is about 1GB. My body has about
30 trillion copies of that data.  Unkind people will argue
that my personality is worth far less than $2000.

For a WILD current data point, the smallest single chip
processor with RAM and EPROM costs less than a penny in
China, can probably run busybox, and is smaller than the
period at the end of this sentence. 

Keith L.

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Keith Lofstrom          kei...@keithl.com

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