How times change!
I entered the computer industry in 1978 in the U. S.
Hard disks of *any* size were unknown. The very first hard drive I ever saw weighed about 20 pounds and was about 26" X 26" X 4" (roughly 66cm X 66cm X 10cm).
AFTER formatting, it held 5 million bytes of data (5 MB); using 66 characters per line and 25 lines per page, that gave you just over 3,000 pages of storage.
With the 5 TB drive, you're looking at about 3 *billion* (3 million million) pages of storage! And you can easily slip it in your pocket!
I can't begin to imagine what we will have in 2020--business card sized 50 terabyte drives? It's certainly possible!
We truly need to celebrate our computer scientist (I'm not one) much more than we do!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
