Exponential growth

[Andre Kesteloot]

This ad is from 1980:

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Inn 1980, they were selling a 10 MB hard disk for $3,500.
Adjusted for inflation that's about $9,500.

For $9,500 today you can get over 150 TB of hard disk.
A TB is one million times bigger than a MB, so that's 15 /million/ times 
more for the same money.
That's 66% growth per year for 32 years.

73
André N4ICK
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