Comments on: Little Big Man http://toomuchgreen.eu/2009/04/little-big-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=little-big-man Open I.T Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:13:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phil http://toomuchgreen.eu/2009/04/little-big-man/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Phil Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:26:00 +0000 http://toomuchgreen.mebbi.net/?p=1760#comment-117 It's amazing to think that just a few years back (well, maybe 15!) you could fit all the files you'd ever need on a well-loved 3.5" floppy disk. I kept the same disk throughout my four years at university for all my computer work and still didn't manage to fill it by the end (I now dread to think what would have happened should I have lost or broken that disk... backup never even entered my mind). 64GB... just think about that in real terms for a moment. That is (give or take) 64,000 of those 3.5" floppies. Exactly how much room would those take up? I can't even imagine what that many would look like. Progress eh? Scary... but cool. It’s amazing to think that just a few years back (well, maybe 15!) you could fit all the files you’d ever need on a well-loved 3.5″ floppy disk. I kept the same disk throughout my four years at university for all my computer work and still didn’t manage to fill it by the end (I now dread to think what would have happened should I have lost or broken that disk… backup never even entered my mind).

64GB… just think about that in real terms for a moment. That is (give or take) 64,000 of those 3.5″ floppies. Exactly how much room would those take up? I can’t even imagine what that many would look like.

Progress eh? Scary… but cool.

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