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Then vs Now (startrek.website)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

...memory used to be extremely expensive...

When I got my brand new 486 PC, I paid over $800 for a 4 MB SIMM card. That is 4 MEGS, not GIGS, 4 MB. That brought up my memory up to 8 MBs.

I was also king of the hill when I added a second hard drive for a total of 40 MBs!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The hard drive I had to wipe from the OS, as I mentioned above was a whole 20 gig. 386-ish era. It seemed so huge when I got it (and so expensive) and by the time that PC was done it was... well, a "wipe to OS to fit stuff in" drive.

But that's not necessarily the point, the more relevant thing is how big things are relative to storage and how cheap it is to upgrade storage. It's true that storage sizes and prices plateaued for a while, so a bunch of people are still running on 1-2 TB while the games got into the hundreds of GB. But still, storage had gotten so proportionately cheap before then, and very fast storage is so overkill now. A 1TB Gen 3 NVMe is 75 bucks, and most games will run fine on it, Sony propaganda notwithstanding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

20 GB during the 386 era does not check out for home PCs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

20 MB is more realistic for that era.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

20 megs maybe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Hah. Yeah, I meant 20 megs. My muscle memory just doesn't want to type a number that low, it seems.