30 May
2023
30 May
'23
6:49 p.m.
On 5/30/23 10:08 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
"Sneakernet" or whatever, I'm still
impressed that I can spend USD$3 for
a 64GB microSD card and store the entire code output of my life and
still have lots of room left over for photos of my dogs.
--Chuck
No kidding. That 64GB fingernail can easily hide in clothing, almost
making it disposable. My favorite metric is how many copies of spinning
rust at the entire computer center that I worked at in 1980 could be
stored on that card. It's probably more than 10. If you add hanging
rust (magtape) the factor drops considerably, but it's likely still over
unity. Certainly for a 1TB SSD...
I'm also amazed that I can put together a still reasonably impressive
14-year-old MacBook Pro for < $100. That's $40 for the empty laptop
as-is at a flea market, ~$15 for 8GB RAM, ~$45 for 960GB SSD. I lucked
out in that there was nothing wrong with the laptop.
--
Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com
Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage.
"Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management
Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire