DarkSerge Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Many years ago, people had 1 MB hard drives and thought "wow that's a lot" and many years later, hard drives were up to 100 MB and people were like "wow, that's a lot." Then as the years went on, they went up higher, even up to 1 GB, and that made people think "wow, all that space, I'll never use that." And in today's modern day, the sizes and capacities keep going higher and higher.As hard drive sizes went up, so did RAM. One time, people has 256K of RAM and thought "Wow that's a lot of memory" and, well, I have 1 GB of RAM.And another modern marvel, e-mail, is as well increasing in size. With Yahoo up to 250 MB and G-Mail breaking the 2 GB barrier, the days of 3 - 5 MB quotas are ancient history.So I post this topic of discussion, what do you think the future holds? Someday, will we say "2 GB, I really need more email space" or "Man, I only have 4 GB of RAM, yeah not much huh? That 3.8 GHz processor is slow as crap. I need a new system."There was a time, back in the year 2000, when my 500 MHz, 6 GB, 96 MB RAM laptop was the big kahuna of the household. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Heck there was a time back in 1986 when a CoCo II or Commodore 64, or even an IBM 8086 was a smoking machine with 64 KB of RAM! LOL!Yes, things do certainly change ... course back in 1986 nearly all, if not all viruses, worms, trojans were not a problem at all. And things like SPAM, SPIM, SPIT, honeypots, malicious websites ... sheesh ... even real websites, IM, VoIP, IPTV, and more were not even a gleam in someone's eye.Yes, we have come a long way .... or have we?! LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeber Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 I read a pundit the other day who opined that in the near future personal computers will move away from onboard hard drives, instead using online or network storage devices. I know one member of this very forum who is approaching 1TB of hard drive space. I think very soon terabyte hard drives and multi-gigabyte memory will be common in high end PCs. As always, the needs of gamers will push the need for more storage, memory and better graphics. And we have yet to see how popular BTX motherboards and PCI-Express graphic cards will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Yep...I think you may be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 I think TB hard drives and Multi GB RAM will be common in all pcs not just high end ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebone Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 I am not yet at 1T, but I do have 1/2 T of external storage. It well over half full. With what? Several weekly backups of the paltry 80G hard drive in my computer and MP3s ripped from my CDs (for use on a portable MP3 player). Oh, yes. That paltry 80G drive replaced a 60G drive whose pants were getting a little tight around the waist.Amazing how quickly an empty attic, er...hard drive, fills up. The lesson I am learning from this is: never rent a storage box at "Public Storage". My stuff might check in, but it will never check out.Goodness, have I used enough conflicting metaphors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Heck there was a time back in 1986 when a CoCo II or Commodore 64, or even an IBM 8086 was a smoking machine with 64 KB of RAM! LOL!Yes, things do certainly change ... course back in 1986 nearly all, if not all viruses, worms, trojans were not a problem at all. And things like SPAM, SPIM, SPIT, honeypots, malicious websites ... sheesh ... even real websites, IM, VoIP, IPTV, and more were not even a gleam in someone's eye.Yes, we have come a long way .... or have we?! LOL! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My first computer was a Z80 that had *2*kb of ram, a 16key keypad, 8 7 segment LEDs for display and used 300baud audio to record to a cassette recorder for storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardFlak Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 My first computer was a VIC-20, and although it was bought for home use, I actually used it in connection with my job. I wrote a program in BASIC to take input material, labor and price, and using a formula for incorporating overheads, calculate profit and profit percentage. We used that to calculate profits at least a couple of times, and then we got access to a new spreadsheet program on our mainframe (Dynaplan, if anyone's ever heard of it), and I started setting everything up on spreadsheets. Dynaplan was the Excel of its day, even having "exec files" that you could run like macros to make routine, repeatable changes on the spreadsheets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 i suppose the next hurdle is voice recognition.i mean, as acurate as typing - we all mkae typos - but vr is only 95% - 98% accurate for home use, now.another hurdle for the intel/amd computing world is catching up to the mac for its image editing capacity; although silicon graphics workstations can currently display 4 (4!) simultaneous broadcast quality streams -and!- add visual effects to -each stream!- while playing in real time!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> As lazy as I am, I really ought to be using voice recognition. I have it on my computer as part of Windows XP Media Edition. But I never have been able to get comfortable talking to a computer. LOOK OUT!!! Its HAL!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stonegiant Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 As lazy as I am, I really ought to be using voice recognition. I have it on my computer as part of Windows XP Media Edition. But I never have been able to get comfortable talking to a computer. LOOK OUT!!! Its HAL!!!!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Daisy.... Daisy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 I don't feel comfortable talking to a computer either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 What I would like to see is away to take voice statement off a digital tape and have the computer type up the report.Natural Dragon Speaking can work for this some what - I need it to be able to take any voice tho, not just my own and convert it to a word doc. We have to do this in our office all the time. We get statement from people that are recorded on to a digital hand held recorder and than we have to listen and type them in. It's a very slow process.The technology to do it all would save me a ton of time, cause most of the time they need to be immediately done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Yes, speech recognition that just worked would be great.I can picture it now ... Scotty says, "Computer, Computer" ... and someone said he should try the keyboard to which he replies,"How Quaint.":thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henderrob Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 In the next couple of years I think that email attachments may include HDTV programs and things of huge size by todays standards. WiMax standards will make hi-speed broadbroad more common than the dial up and video and music (Hifi) files will continue to get bigger. Yes, I see where 4GB RAM and mult-terabyte harddrives become common in 3 to 6 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plukaduk Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 Yes, speech recognition that just worked would be great.I can picture it now ... Scotty says, "Computer, Computer" ... and someone said he should try the keyboard to which he replies,"How Quaint."<{POST_SNAPBACK}> User: G'day computer, log me on...Computer: G'day to you to, I cannot log you on.User: Why?Computer: I'm not logging you on till you apologise for calling me a <<expletive deleted>> useless piece of <<expletive deleted>>User: Pretty please with sugar on it...Computer: <<expletive deleted>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardFlak Posted April 13, 2005 Share Posted April 13, 2005 I talk to my computer all the time, but it has nothing to do with voice recognition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 I talk to my computer all the time, but it has nothing to do with voice recognition.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b2cm Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 A case of vicarious relationship, definitely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoardFlak Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 Five years? Optimist!We have computer-controlled machines in our plant still running on a DOS platform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henderrob Posted April 15, 2005 Share Posted April 15, 2005 With dual processors on a single chip in desktop environments with prbably multiple processors on a chip to handling HD DVD over internet with nantechnology and emplanted computer chips to Heads Up Displays on everyday glasses. All within 10 years I bet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patio Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 About 2 years ago i read that 3M had developed processors made of plastic...flexible,small, no silicon, not quite up to speed yet but moving that way.Needless to say i purchased some 3M stock that week. picture a vest with the glasses henderrob mentions, and neural transmitter controls and you're there...!!patio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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