{"id":397,"date":"2005-09-18T23:45:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/TimesTheyAreAchangin.aspx"},"modified":"2005-09-18T23:45:05","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T23:45:05","slug":"times-they-are-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/18\/times-they-are-a-changin\/","title":{"rendered":"Times they are a-changin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I&#8217;m getting close to finishing my hard drive upgrade for my desktop at home (ran out of space for ripping CDs) and the amount of storage I now have made me start thinking back to the computers I&#8217;ve had over my lifetime and how the storage specs have progressed<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Apple IIe &#8211; No hard drive, just a 360 kB floppy drive (&#8230;720 kB thanks to a hole punch)<br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.lowendmac.com\/lc\/lc.shtml\">Mac LC<\/A> &#8211; 40 MB (I have picture files large than that)<br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.lowendmac.com\/ppc\/8100.shtml\">Power Mac&nbsp;8100<\/A> &#8211; 250 MB (The drive was huge!&nbsp; For a while, at least)<br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.lowendmac.com\/ppc\/g3b.shtml\">Mac PPC G3<\/A> &#8211; 4 GB (OS X has a system requirement of 3 GB, I think I can upgrade)<br \/>\n<LI>Home-built dual Celeron &#8211; 40 GB (Now <EM>that&#8217;s<\/EM> huge&#8230; right?)<br \/>\n<LI>Home-built P3 server &#8211; 120 GB (That is huge, I&#8217;m never going to run out of room now)<br \/>\n<LI>Home-built MCE &#8211; .8 TB (Actually it&#8217;s 1.6 TB of drives mirrored for data protection)<\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s kind of wild, just a couple of years ago that amount of storage seemed obscene&#8230; now it&#8217;s just necessary.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Care to take any bets on how long it takes me to be cramped for space?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting close to finishing my hard drive upgrade for my desktop at home (ran out of space for ripping CDs) and the amount of storage I now have made me start thinking back to the computers I&#8217;ve had over my lifetime and how the storage specs have progressed Apple IIe &#8211; No hard drive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techhardware","category-tech","tag-techhardware"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}