An idea hit me on the drive in, so I took some time to put in this late entry.
Storage has increased in density tremendously over my lifetime. On the bottom, a 1.44MB Double High Density floppy disk. The most prevalent form of storage when I was in my teens. This week, Sony announced they were going to stop making floppies -- they've had a long life.
On the top, a 16GB Micro SD card. It holds the equivalent of 11,378 of the big-ass floppies underneath, with no moving parts.
Price for the MicroSD card? $30. Price for 11,378 floppies in 1988? About $1.50 per floppy.
Density rules.
Penny for scale and cool reflective properties from my slave flash.
2 comments:
But... what's the capacity of the penny?
1 bit - heads or tails.
Or 0.08 bits, using the monetary definition.
I'll strike the poll and put up a new one.
/rl
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