Emerging in 2005 out of the need for a memory card small enough to fit inside a mobile phone, microSD cards have rapidly matured to their current status of global ubiquity and adoption. This year's Mobile World Congress marks a significant milestone in their growth, with SanDisk introducing the first 128GB microSD card. That will store a thousand times more photos, videos, and GIFs than the original maximum of 128MB.
At such large sizes, microSD cards are approaching the typical storage you'll get on an SSD-equipped laptop or tablet, which will surely contribute to the ongoing erosion of the distinction between mobile devices and PCs...
I'm not sure if I have this right, but I believe my first real PC had 128KB of RAM and a whopping 10MB hard drive. And it cost about $5,700 if memory serves.
Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News
3 comments:
Yeah, but just think of all the great forward progress comrade Obama has brought us!
Odd how soon our entire lives can be stored on a teenie-tiny-eentsy-weensy memory card...
...but that card will still be unable to tell us if we're legal immigrants, legal voters, or legal recipients of welfare.
Heh.
The strength of today's computers would have stopped the race to the moon back in 1969. The computers that NASA used were not even as powerful as the old Commodore 64s.
We succeeded in 1969 because we didn't have any idea we couldn't do it. The sheer determination by NASA to succeed did not allow for failure. It's a far cry from NASA (or any government job) to succeed out of a love of country. For Patriotism. For beating the Ruskies. But liberalism has opened the county to the scourge of multiculture obsessed American left.
The more capable we are of going back to the moon, the less we are to be the first ones there. That is a legacy Obama will never live down.
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