I had a bit of a double-take this morning that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first computer I used (an Apple IIe<\/a>) had 64 kilo<\/em>bytes of RAM (actually, I guess it’s technically<\/em> more correct to write kibi<\/em>bytes<\/a>). The densest permanent storage I had access to were single-sided<\/em> 5.25-inch floppy disks (I remember feeling quite<\/em> proud when I got my first “notcher<\/a>” which allowed me to put a professional-looking write-protect notch on the other<\/em> side). I had to look up the exact number, but the Apple DOS<\/a> 3.3 format stored 140KiB per side of a 5.25-inch floppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n This morning, I did a double-take when I realized that I could store a 444 mega<\/em>byte (mebi<\/em>byte, actually) file on my hard drive<\/em> without having to be concerned at all<\/em> about the space consumed (it used less than 0.1% of the total storage on the drive<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s a comparison to give you an idea how far mass-produced, <\/em>consumer-level<\/em> technology has come in 30 years. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a bit of a double-take this morning that I wanted to share. The first computer I used (an Apple IIe) had 64 kilobytes of RAM (actually, I guess it’s technically more correct to write kibibytes). The densest permanent storage I had access to were single-sided 5.25-inch floppy disks (I remember feeling quite proud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-memories","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}