Deep Thought
The hard drive in my very first PC was 20 MB. I just got a 1.5 TB drive delivered. That’s basically 1,500,000 MB, or a 75,000-fold increase in capacity.
That PC had 640 kB of RAM. My current PC has 6 GB of RAM, or 6,291,456 kB, almost a 10,000-fold increase.
That PC had a 16 MHz CPU. My current PC has 4 CPU cores, each rated at 2.66 GHz, or basically 2,660 MHz. Each core can simultaneously process two threads, so I essentially have 8 logical cores.
That’s progress, folks.
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