Solid State Hard Drives

[scotty]

Originally Posted by SiblingRevelry

This is why I bought a BlackBerry. I was lusting after a net notebook I saw at a store (it was so cute, it was so light!) and I said to myself, "Self, you need something practical. Get that BlackBerry." Especially since I wanted a HP 1000 Mini Vivienne Tam edition with the AMAZING fuschia fabric cover. (Fuschia is my favorite color.) http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/sh...i1000vt_series

By comparison, the BlackBerry was more practical. I can receive phone calls on it!

And yes, I have read AFF on my new BlackBerry.

One thing that really *amazes* me (as someone who has had some sort of computer in her home since 1987) is how TINY storage has gotten. I put a 2 GB card in the BlackBerry and the card is as small as the nail on my thumb and only cost me $30. My first computer hard drive had 40 MB, and came in a computer with 1 MB of RAM, an amber monitor and a 1200 baud modem. It set me back $1000 in 1990 dollars. (That wasn't my first computer. My first computer was a Morrow CP/M I stole from my father for law school and it had a whopping 64K of RAM). But I still miss my WordStar software. Miss, miss, miss.

These days, a can opener has more memory than my first computer with a hard drive (a joke, but not awfully far from the truth).

Ah, memories!

My first was a Texas Instruments key pad that hooked to the TV for a monitor... used cassette tapes for the programs...