I carried my PC to school, uphill, in five feet of snow
August 2, 2005 - 05:03 PM
[Update: Welcome, Instapundit readers, and thanks for visiting! Feel free to visit the main page and archives.]I got an email today at work talking about the disk space required for a database on a server I'm building:
The entire collection of the databases for this project total approx 10GB (includes backups, logs, etc), which is very small.
The phrase got me: "very small". Ten gigabytes is "very small"? Since when? Am I that old?
Yup.
My first computer, the VIC-20, could store 4,096 bytes, or characters, in its memory ? ?4KB' or just ?4k'.
This was circa 1981, the year Moving Pictures was released (just thought I'd throw that in), and just after Bill Gates famously/allegedly said "Nobody will ever need more than 640k of memory".