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Offline sam

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Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« on: November 30, 2009, 01:22 »
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This is a little graphic charting the progress in music storage. It's part of a larger graphic which also includes the evolutions of photo and data storage

Lovely image showing the data storage capabilities of different media..

much more detailed one http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2009/11/29/storage-full.jpg
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2009, 10:36 »
My first floppy held just 160k. Terrabytes were unimaginable.
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2009, 11:22 »
Where will it all end?   :dunno:
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2009, 11:23 »
Desktop Krays?
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2009, 12:27 »
We almost have them now Rik, with the Teslar GPUs. Personal supercomputers are now available for around £5K so it wont be long before theyre under a grand  :)
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2009, 13:18 »
Nice thought - Photoshop will fly. :)
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2009, 13:28 »
But it wouldn't make internet Explorer any better!  ;D
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2009, 14:26 »
we have 100node machines at work... makes data analysis nice and quick
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2009, 15:57 »
Quote from: Simon on November 30, 2009, 13:28
But it wouldn't make internet Explorer any better!  ;D

Firefox would. ;D
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Re: Nov 29 2009Don't Copy That Floppy!: Evolution Of Storage
« Reply #9 on: November 30, 2009, 18:40 »
And it does!  :)
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