So I am watching this movie(Boiler Room) as we speak and I had to post. Seth the main guy in the movie just backed up his whole C: drive onto a FLOPPY DISK!
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Back up your C: drive onto a floppy.
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I DVR'ed reruns of Married with Children and was watching an episode where they got a computer. $2100 got them a computer with a 40 meg hard drive and 7 megs of RAM 
C:\ drive on a floppy? One megabyte hard drives. Jeez, when was that movie made, 1970?
Of course, it's more likly they didnt do thier research.
Of course, it's more likly they didnt do thier research.
C: drive? Is that like an 800KB floppy?
(The first Mac I ever played with was a Fat Mac in 1984.)
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(The first Mac I ever played with was a Fat Mac in 1984.)
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I can beat that hands-down. In 1987, I paid ~$1100 to upgrade my Acer 1100 386. There were few 386 out then and there has a major shortage of DRAM's. SIMM's were brand new technology and not available. To expand the standard 1 Meg, I had to buy an Acer proprietary 'daughter board' for $400, and spend almost $800 for a whole bag of 16K DRAMS. I chuckle when I read about people complaining about how hard it was to install their matching set of 2GB memory modules.
Yeah, but at least you could tell for sure when you installed a DIP incorrectly and bent one of the &*%#($%#&$Q pins. I remember speding over $250 for 1MB of DRAM DIPs for a '286 around '89. Just got 2GB for my iMac for less.SMM said:
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That's cheap!My mom payed $1000 to upgrade her hard drive in her Dell to 1GB in 1990.
Around 1985, I paid $1295 for a 96KB memory upgrade for my HP-71!
$2100 got them a computer with a 40 meg hard drive and 7 megs of RAM
Weird to think that once RAM vs Harddrive space was much closer.
2000 would get you 1GB of RAM(maybe 2GB) along with 250GB of hardrive space
Interesting point.
Another way to look at it, is that most computers today have more RAM memory than computers had HD space 15 years ago.
Of course in the early 90's RAM prices were about $100 per MB.
Its just another consequence of Moore's Law.
I remember when 1.79 MHz was a screaming fast machine. Jump that 3 orders of magnitude, duplicate it on 4 cores with numbers 8 times as wide, and you have a low end mac Pro...
I remember when 1.79 MHz was a screaming fast machine. Jump that 3 orders of magnitude, duplicate it on 4 cores with numbers 8 times as wide, and you have a low end mac Pro...