[QUOTE=Rika-chan;38544654][url]https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!msg/alt.folklore.computers/mpjS-h4jpD8/9DW_VQVLzpkJ[/url][/QUOTE]
would explain why the only date given for my quote was vague, hm. I remember a handful of terribly ill-fated quotes from the early days of computers, I'll have to dig them back up with proper sourcing :v:
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;38533943]All the computers in 1960 combined have less processing power than a year 2000 Gameboy.[/QUOTE]I read once that the entire computing power of the Allied forces in 1964 had less power than one of the chips in a talking greeting card. And we throw those things AWAY. Either side may have killed to get one.
Well that's nice and all, but now revive the WORLD'S OLDEST ANALOGUE COMPUTER.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;38543962]I remember ~2005 noticing how crazy cheap USB sticks were, they'd reached only $10/gig, all the spoiled kids at school had those 4gig black ones that would slide into themselves via the side button that was clear white plastic with an orange LED underneath
rich bastards[/QUOTE]Paid DropBox accounts don't get you as much swag.
Also, I have a 16GB flash drive but it's mainly useless because my school likes to use Google Docs/Drive for everything. That's fine by me, but I wish I had a use for my flash drive.
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[QUOTE=Fish_poke;38545557]Well that's nice and all, but now revive the WORLD'S OLDEST ANALOGUE COMPUTER.[/QUOTE]Good luck even figuring out which is the first. Does Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical room calculator sketch count? Heh. They did build that though, and it worked.
[QUOTE=Naaz;38545581]Paid DropBox accounts don't get you as much swag.
Also, I have a 16GB flash drive but it's mainly useless because my school likes to use Google Docs/Drive for everything. That's fine by me, but I wish I had a use for my flash drive.
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Good luck even figuring out which is the first. Does Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical room calculator sketch count? Heh. They did build that though, and it worked.[/QUOTE]
It was a joke, but that seems neat. I would love to see it.
[QUOTE=Chaoss86;38544437]I remember posting on an online tech bulletin board (or was it a chat room i can't remember now) back in 1997, and 1GB hard drives were just starting to become mainstream but were still expensive. I said "In 10 years we will have 100GB hard drives!" and someone said exactly what you just said.
As resolutions increase, 4k and even 8k video becomes commonplace trust me you'll go through 1tb fast. Remember back in the day when games started needing 2 disks and there was outrage, games are now often 10 - 20GB per game. Think in another 10 - 20 years 1TB games will be commonplace as the sizes of textures, detail of models and quality of sounds increase.
I'd go to say the area of tech that has increased the least is actually displays... specifically resolutions we seem to have gone backwards when CRT's could do 2048x1152, we moved backwards when LCD's became commonplace and now the standard resolution is 1920x1080, with the highest resolution mainstream display available is currently 2560x1600 (not including Apple's new Retina Macbook). Although resolutions themselves have failed to increase or yield any technical advancement video formats have cought up with 720p and even 1080p becoming more and more common on even camera phones. Once we get another resolution bump to 4k and eventually 8k we will be needing terrabytes and even petabytes of storage to house all that data. Something else to take into concideration is 3D... I don't mean crappy 3D with glasses I'm talking about proper 3D holograms or 3D screens that can be viewed from multiple angles and you get a different viewpoint. Those formats will take up an unthinkable amount of space. Imagen a video that is 1920x1080p format now, well if you had true 3D you'd have to have 1920x1920x1080 (That's 3981312000 pixels!!) You'd be talking of file sizes up in the hundreds or even thousands of terrabytes in size[/QUOTE]
My only problem with this is I think storage capacity is going to outpace internet infrastructure to the point where downloads of higher amounts are fucked.
[QUOTE=MIPS;38534175]No love for the Atanasoff-Berry Computer?
It's the oldest known digital computer to exist and it was made in 1937. In coparison that computer is newer and SLOWER.
[img]http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500002003p-03-01?$re-story-hero$[/img]
:C[/QUOTE]Looks like a grill.
[QUOTE=Bumbanut;38534023]Can't say that for sure; who knows when we will hit a (hopefully) temporary limit to technological advancement?[/QUOTE]
We're going to reach a size limit, that's for sure. There's only so many transistors you can put on one chunk of silicon. But there are still things you can do with it that hasn't been totally explored - like bendy screens. And bendy e-reader touch-screens (Interactive newspapers, fuck yeah).
[QUOTE=Cabbage;38603631]We're going to reach a size limit, that's for sure. There's only so many transistors you can put on one chunk of silicon. But there are still things you can do with it that hasn't been totally explored - like bendy screens. And bendy e-reader touch-screens (Interactive newspapers, fuck yeah).[/QUOTE]
What about the holographic drive, where instead of disks its a gel packet that is written and read from using 2 lasers so the bits are stored in 3D space, allowing for insane storage capacity(curently triple that of blu-ray) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_drive[/url]
and don't forget quantum computing
[QUOTE=viperfan7;38606280]What about the holographic drive, where instead of disks its a gel packet that is written and read from using 2 lasers so the bits are stored in 3D space, allowing for insane storage capacity(curently triple that of blu-ray) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_drive[/url]
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It's a cool technology for sure, but I highly doubt it'll ever be used outside long-term storage solutions.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/PC0tS.jpg?1[/img]
"The things I've calculated."?
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