monica_b1998@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoA 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recordertechfixated.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1297arrow-down12
arrow-up1295arrow-down1external-linkA 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recordertechfixated.commonica_b1998@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-21 month agoA kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then. A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That’s a lot of dollars. (And it’s actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more). It’s crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we’re buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing! EDIT: Math fail. Let’s say TWO bits are a quarter…lmao
A kilobyte must have sounded like so much memory back then.
A byte is 8 bits. Even if we want to call bits quarters ($0.25) and bytes dollars, 69KB would be $69,000! That’s a lot of dollars.
(And it’s actually 1,024 or something instead of 1,000, which just increases it that much more).
It’s crazy how KBs used to be incredibly meaningful, and now we’re buying multi-TB drives like they’re nothing!
EDIT: Math fail. Let’s say TWO bits are a quarter…lmao