Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Size Matters

I just downloaded a PDF (20.4MB) that is bigger than the first hard drive I had (20MB, on my Mac Plus, external, footprint -- a vast improvement over booting from floppy!). Amazing. My current Mac, 20 years later, has half a terabyte (0.5TB!) and runs at 3.06GHz instead of 8MHz (and has 2GB of RAM instead of 1MB, which I later upped to 4 -- I still have the Mac case cracking tools). I wonder if I get more or less done. Work differently. If I didn't spend all this time blog writing...