These numbers have been making their way around the intertubes this week. It's a quick rundown on the average price of computer storage over the last 30 years. YEAR — Price of a Gigabyte
1981 — $300,000
1987 — $50,000
1990 — $10,000
1994 — $1000
1997 — $100
2000 — $10
2004 — $1
2010 — $0.10
via geekosystem
That's pretty amazing when you think about it. The same ammount of storage my cell phone has would have cost $1,200,000 in 1981. I still remember the first memeory upgrade I made to my first PC (386 for life!). It was a 4 meg upgrade and each 1 meg simm cost 25 bucks. It was totally worth it, Doom ran so smooth!
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