Exponential growth

[Mike ODELL]

even more entertaining would be the capacity of a pile of modern 4TB disks
with the same *weight* as that drive!


Sent from my iPad so please excuse the jammy fingers.

On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Andre Kesteloot <andre.kesteloot at verizon.net> wrote:

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> 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. 
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> 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.
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> 73
> André N4ICK
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