1,099,511,627,776

I just installed 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024**4 or 2**40 bytes or 1 terabyte (TB) of disk space on my TiVo. Let’s see, my first computer that dad got me was a Commodore 64 C64 - that's 64K - not 64 gb or even 64kb - just 64,000 K or 65,536 bytes. Programming was limited to BASIC and only something like 32kb of the 64kb was addressable. My C64 started out with a cassette tape drive followed by the long awaited C1541 floppy disk drive. The C64 was about the same price, in 1982 dollars, as the TiVo Expansion disk. Go figure. My how things change and change quickly. The C64 was hooked up to the color TV and then I got a green screen Gorilla monitor - ooh moving up in the world. Amazingly, C64 has a huge almost cult following and people are developing new software for it, Ethernet cards, etc. Why I don't know, but then everyone needs a good hobby.





Speaking of terabytes, there is a company called Teradata http://www.teradata.com/t/ that is in the business of providing computers and software capable of accessing terabytes of data. They were/are an industry leader long before terabytes were available for home use. I remember I had a friend of mine who worked with them and Wal-Mart was their biggest customer. Now days, memory and disk space is dirt cheap. Imagine, for $150usd I got a terabyte worth of data for my TiVo none the less.



I spent many a day and night programming ALC-Assembly Language (twiddling bits), COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, and PASCAL on my C64 hooked into the schools Honeywell CP6 36bit architecture mainframe - connected by a blazing fast 300 baud modem! The world drastically changed when the 1200 baud modems came out. Talk about blazing fast







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