I remember when one of my mates got a floppy drive for his Commodore 64. It was the best thing since sliced bread. Games would load so fast compared to the crappy old tape drive.
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Originally Posted by markstevens2000  I think the rule (from the 60's) about computing power doubling every 18 months has remained true. One could argue that storage capacity does the same.
I remeber buying 32K of RAM to increase a ZX Spectrum from 16K to 48K back in 1984 - about £50 that cost ! |
You're talking about Moore's law. It has roughly remained true for some hardware but certainly not for others.