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Second_Chance
Aug 10, 2016Explorer II
Yeah... in graduate school in the '80s, I had a clone shop put new PC together for me. I asked for a 40MB hard drive and they guy exclaimed, "Good God! What do you need all that space for?" I explained that I was starting to play around with a half-page hand scanner and that some of the files were 3 and 4 KB big. My dad, who had worked on the Apollo project, came to visit. When he saw the PC, he said, "What's that?" When I explained that it had 1MB of RAM and a 40MB hard drive, he thought a moment and replied that this was hundreds of times more computing power than they had in the command module. Of course, my first time through college, PCs hadn't been thought of and I didn't even have an electric typewriter...
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