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October 10, 2011

Remember when disk was measured in Megabytes?

My first computer (an Osborne 1) had two 92kB (that's kilobyte) floppy drives.

In 1994, I purchased, for $200, a 200 MB (megabyte) hard drive, and that was considered both spacious and a good price.

My current cell phone has more space than that in regular memory, and 16 GB of flash memory.

Today I got an email about a compute cluster I used:

...When I wrote that email, we had roughly 42TB. As of this morning, we have 20TB of space free on the cluster....

They only have 20 TB (terabytes), of space left. That's only 100,000 of my 1994 drives...