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Dunking on everybody in the park
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
We are actually getting slower! Where are my ****ing Concordes?
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Perfectly Calm, Dude
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by B-hoop
We are actually getting slower! Where are my ****ing Concordes?
The last couple of years of Concorde flights were half empty. There was a crash in Paris in 2000 and then 9/11 a year later led to worldwide air travel slump.
Those customers never came back.
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Dunking on everybody in the park
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Yea i know, was jk. The crash in Paris was the last straw, even before 9/11 they were already saying they wouldnt use them anymore.
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The Renaissance man
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by KevinNYC
The last couple of years of Concorde flights were half empty. There was a crash in Paris in 2000 and then 9/11 a year later led to worldwide air travel slump.
Those customers never came back.
Concorde was also very expensive, economically inefficient, used insane amounts of fuel, loud enough that it could shatter windows if flown low. Some of the same reasons why the USAF took the SR71 Blackbird out of commission before the Concorde was.
It's also pretty ironic that consumer technology is almost always built for militaristic reasons first before it shifts to the public. Computers were exclusively created for the military. Nobody could dream that such a technology was possible.
Check out the computer that took us to the moon - 2K of memory running at 1MHz:
Released in 1979, just a decade after Apollo 11's trip to the Moon, the 8086's cousin, the 8088, formed the basis for the IBM PC we all know and love. When the IBM PC "XT" was released in 1981, the lowest end configuration had 8 times more memory than Apollo's Guidance Computer -- 16k, vs the Apollo's 2k.
The Apollo's Guidance Computer was a snail-like 1.024 MHz in comparison, and it's external signaling was half that -- actually measured in Hz (1/1000th of 1 MHz, much as 1 MHz is 1/1000 of 1 GHz).
All of that took off from Earth, took us to the moon, landed, and brought us back to Earth all intact
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Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Does Moore's Law even apply to hard drives? I ask because, as far as I know, they're made of magnets and not transistors.
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Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by bladefd
All of that took off from Earth, took us to the moon, landed, and brought us back to Earth all intact
Yes, and it also shielded them from solar flares, cosmic rays, and the inescapable radiation belts around the Earth.
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Dunking on everybody in the park
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
No, it applies only to the number of transistors in CPUs
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I post-up midgets
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by bladefd
where can i buy 5tb for $150? i need one
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Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Then how do I explain hard drives getting so small and so dense?
Ah, I see. Google is telling me that there's something called Kryder's Law which is like Moore's Law for hard drives.
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Dunking on everybody in the park
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Does it allow for solid state hard-drives? That shit is just incredible, 100x faster than the normal magnetic hd
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I post-up midgets
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by B-hoop
Does it allow for solid state hard-drives? That shit is just incredible, 100x faster than the normal magnetic hd
i have one, its more like 3-5 times faster than normal hdd
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The Renaissance man
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by magic chiongson
where can i buy 5tb for $150? i need one
Sorry, I meant 4tb not 5tb.. Seagate is releasing a 5tb hdd next month though
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B99JU4S/...xtension-kb-20
https://www.google.com/shopping/prod...rds=scoring:tp
Last edited by bladefd; 01-07-2014 at 11:11 PM.
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I rule the local playground
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Can't even hold a Kendrick Perkins highlight reel in there.
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Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by Fork
Can't even hold a Kendrick Perkins highlight reel in there.
Stop clownin'. Yes u can. You can also throw in Anthony Bennett's career highlights and bonus Len Bias highlights.
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A humble prophet
Re: 5mb harddrive 50+ years ago
Originally Posted by bladefd
Concorde was also very expensive, economically inefficient, used insane amounts of fuel, loud enough that it could shatter windows if flown low. Some of the same reasons why the USAF took the SR71 Blackbird out of commission before the Concorde was.
It's also pretty ironic that consumer technology is almost always built for militaristic reasons first before it shifts to the public. Computers were exclusively created for the military. Nobody could dream that such a technology was possible.
They were only first class seats weren't they. Has anyone flown in one? Seems like a cool thing to have done.
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