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03/10/21 5:21 PM

#367079 RE: hookrider #367078

In 1988, I Bought an 80 Megabyte Seagate Hard Drive

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215211598

for $400. I needed it for the BBS system I was running for my shareware software company. It was huge, completely filling the hard drive bay on my PC AT clone. It ran so hot that you couldn't touch the top of the computer case over it. It was also noisy. It made a chuckling sound every time the read/write head arm moved. I was living large!

In 2021, I bought 2 32-Gigabyte micro SD cards for $7.99 on Amazon. I needed one for my new photo slide scanner. I stuffed the other one in my Android phone as extra memory.

Freaking remarkable! That's what that is. That's what we expect from our technology improvements.

Now, if only our society had matured like that and improved itself at that rate in the same amount of time. Wouldn't that be nice?

Maybe, if we never let Republicans back in power, such a thing might be possible.






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03/10/21 6:28 PM

#367089 RE: hookrider #367078

You got it, hookrider. You get it.