Technology?
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Loading ...I remember my first setup, was a Black Timex Sinclair IIRC. The thing was bought when I was 8 or 9 years old , had no hard drive, and had to be programmed manually.
Now? Well, I’m in the process of rebuilding a secondary home pc, which desperately needs it. Some 20+ years later though, technology has just grown in leaps and bounds, quite literally.
Take for example, the size of hard drives. Shit, when I had my first (thanks dad!!) , everything had to be saved onto TAPE. Now? Well, we’ve got 400+ GB hard drives that are rolling out. Talk about sweet!
Processing? Oh yeah, we’ve most definitely made improvements THERE (though I still think that we’re slowing down a bit). Just before I moved to PA (98 or so??) the 800m processor was coming out. It was the great thing of the future. Now? Well, the beast that I’m bu ilding now will have an intel HT 3.2 gig processor. Over 4x the processing power there. JEBUS!
Memory? Yeah, right, the Sinclair had almost none. Now? Well, this next beast will have 2g of DDR (not going with ddr2 this time around).
It’s amazing how technology seems to surpass itself every year and in a larger way. At some point there’s got to be a "stop" point, but we’ll see what happens I guess.
Hell, my ps2 (and soon to own ps3, when they come out;)) is more powerful than my first computer, and that’s just a boring gaming console!!!! Talk about improvement.
Thus ends todays lesson on technology. I’ll leave with one of the more (in)famous (mis)quotes in the field:
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
– Bill Gates, Microsoft boss, 1981
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-=T=-
