{"id":522,"date":"2005-06-04T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2005-06-04T14:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=522"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:17:42","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:17:42","slug":"one-gigabyte-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/04\/one-gigabyte-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"One Gigabyte Drives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology has come a long way. A friend of mine, back in college, once told me a story about when he was shown a 1 GB drive – and this was back in the days when 1 GB was impossibly huge (sort of like, say, how big 1 terabyte might seem to us right now). The drive itself was absolutely huge, and it weighed a ton (well, not literally, but you get the idea). My friend thought it was pretty cool, and when he was asked “but what would you do with a gig of drive space?” he replied: “Doublespace it!”<\/p>\n

Er, okay, many of you may not get the joke, but look up a history of MS-DOS<\/a> and you’ll see that at one point it shipped with a utility called “Doublespace,” which compressed your hard drive to give you more space. Now maybe the joke will make sense.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve got a 1 GB drive at work at the moment – it’s a relic from my grandfather’s computer. When I showed it to my co-worker Tom, he pulled his 1 GB memory card out of his PocketPC – and the comparison was so stark that I just had to take a picture. <\/p>\n

\"old<\/p>\n

In case you can’t get a sense of scale, the drive on the left weighs about 8 lbs and is the size of my head. The memory card on the right weighs almost nothing, and is the size of a postage stamp.<\/p>\n

\"closeup<\/p>\n

Heh. How far we’ve come, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question: “What would you do with a gigabyte drive?” Answer: “Doublespace it!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3860,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2012\/04\/10\/breathing-new-life-into-an-old-netbook\/","url_meta":{"origin":522,"position":0},"title":"Breathing New Life into an Old Netbook","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Lately I had been getting a bit frustrated with the performance of my old netbook, so I decided it was time for an upgrade to a SSD.","rel":"","context":"In "Gadgets"","block_context":{"text":"Gadgets","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/gadgets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SSD drive icon","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2012\/04\/Ssd-slick-drive-256-150x150.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1094,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/05\/01\/a-computer-conundrum\/","url_meta":{"origin":522,"position":1},"title":"A Computer Conundrum","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 1, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, I've filled up my hard drive. 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