• mkhopper@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I would have killed for 20Gb of space in 1999 on my personal PC. People ran with nowhere near that much space back then.

    I was also the administrator of an HP mainframe at that time, and we ran the whole business on about 5Gb, and paid big $$$ for it.

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      15 days ago

      Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb

      There is a difference between gigabytes and gigabits. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 8 gigabits (Gb)

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        15 days ago

        Did you mean 20GB? Cause 20Gb = 2.5Gb

        The irony… Nobody talks about bits when it comes to storage, it’s basically only used for transfer speeds. So it should be pretty easy to infer by the context.

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        15 days ago

        Yes, and I think in the context, that is implied. I’m not a cable internet provider advertising “50 Mb” speeds and confusing people when they only get like 6MB.

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      15 days ago

      In '99 my 8GB disk died, and shortage of stock gave me a 12GB disk as warranty replacement.

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      15 days ago

      We had one of these 12gb quantum bigfoots(5.25” drive) in ~1998 or so. Here’s a publication saying it was expected to cost $490 at launch. That’s a far cry from ~$450 per gigabyte.

      Edit to add inflation graphic. Doesn’t add up even after accounting for inflation.