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G+_Kevin Spitzer (JaguarXT
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Dan Slade In 1987, I had a DOS machine with a 20 MB disk, thanks to a friend that blew me custom PROMs. (No puns, please!) I was happy as a clam.

 

I currently have a Win10 box with 32 GB of system RAM, and 8GB of Graphics adapter dual ported RAM. 40GB of RAM is more storage (including disk/drum), total, than the first 100 computers I ever used, had (in toto), including those by DEC (8, 12, 10, 11, Vax), IBM (11/30, 360), Burroughs (5500, 5700), HP (21MX), Imlac, XDS, Evans & Sutherland, Apple II, CPM Z80, Zenith DOS, Mac, IBM PC, ....

 

One of the things I learned is that what you can store depends on the powers of K (1000, or 2^10) factor. For example:

 

* When your storage is order 100 KB, all you can store is simple programs.

* When your storage is order 10 KKB (MB), all you can store is programs and simple documents.

* When your storage is order 10 KKKB (GB), all you can store is programs, documents, and simple multimedia files.

* When your storage is order 10 KKKKB (TB), all you can store is programs, documents, and select multimedia files.

* When your storage is order 10 KKKKKB (PB), all you can store is programs, documents, and all your multimedia ontent, including abandoning all paper files.

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In my home office, right now, I currently have ~16 TB of storage. That does not include the 2TB in my DVR, nor the 100GB on Google Drive, nor the stacks of data CDs and DVDs.

 

In brief, the fourth law of thermodynamics: shit expands to take up all available space. In closets, disks, meeting time, etc. ;-)

 

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