Watch closely. I am about to break one of the cardinal rules here at Gear Diary. It has always been our practice to put a break immediately after the first picture. But I am going to eschew that rule for a minute. So I can show you exactly what One Terabyte looks like…
There it is. One Terabyte!! Now, some of you may be looking at that wondering what the big deal is. So, let me tell you about my first computer. I was a sophomore in college. Yes, you read that right. I went to college with a Smith Corona electric typewriter. For you youngsters, well, I will leave you to research exactly what a typewriter is – or was. And bonus points to anyone who can pinpoint the reason for the QWERTY keyboard that you find on every computer ever made.
Anyway, my first computer was a speed demon 386, running MS DOS. I somehow managed to cram Windows 3.1 in there by tweaking the 4 (yes f-o-u-r-4) megabytes of RAM. I can also tell you that Windows used a disproportionately large amount of space on the 20 Megabyte hard drive.
To those of us who used computers back then, a terabyte was almost a mythological place, like Mount Olympus or Atlantis. And to be honest, I am still just a little amazed to have found it at all. So, sit back, relax, and we’ll explore the mythical land of the terabyte, as interpreted by Hammer Storage and their Morespace external hard drive.
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