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A true quantum leap

Laurie Fleming

Posted: 23 October 2009 02:26 AM

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Many many years ago, the first non-punch-card storage medium I ever used was 24 kilobytes, and it was around .5m square. Yes, half a metre!

Now a terabyte can fit on a fingernail.

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