20 years – that’s the age difference between the IBM hard drive on the left, and the SD Card on the right. Both feature a maximum storage capacity of 1 Gb.
It’s amazing the difference 20 years of advancement can make, isn’t it?
via CrunchGear
Then and Now: 1 Gb
Yeah but that’s not the biggest difference. The biggest difference is the cost. That IBM thing probably cost $100,000.00 in it’s day. The tiny one (you should have shown a microSD for significant contrast, CF cards are considered huge by todays standards) can be had for less than $50.
hmm, a museum here in norway has a 1MB ibm drive plate in their collection. the plate is about 1meter in diameter!
[...] One the left, a one gigabyte IBM hard drive circa 1987. On the right, a one gigabyte SD card circa the last sale at Best Buy, before they got all the latest Micro-SD stuff in stock. Twenty years equals about twenty pounds from the looks of things. Found via Forever Geek. [...]
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