High Fidelity

[cyrano]

And there we have it. Twelve and a half gigabytes later, I have finished the eighties playlist; it's now ready to move to an iPod and be portable.

It still weirds me out that this gigantic collection of data won't even fill a quarter of the memory in this little calculator sized piece of plastic.

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[carabosse.livejournal.com]

If you can think of any song you're missing, let me know.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I knew I should have kept notes. There were a few albums that didn't make the digital transition and I was going to check at Rasputin's. But now I don't remember what any of them were. q:

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, we are an amazing species. 40 years ago that much digital storage would have taken up several buildings. I wonder how much it'll shrink in the next 40.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

In forty years you won't be able to buy something as piddling as a 60 gig storage unit.

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Of course you won't, just like you couldn't put together 60GB of storage in 1970. (I think the state-of-the-art mainframe my mom programmed at the IBM lab had only a few MB.) But we'll be able to divide the matchbook-sized 60HB drive in our imaginations.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Well, the youngsters will be able to do that, but my imagination isn't that good. My imagination is blinking '12:00'.

[mostuff.livejournal.com]

I remember my dad telling me there's no way I'd need anything bigger than my 20 meg hard drive.

That was in 1990ish?

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember first hearing about the one terabyte drives and thinking how ludicrous that was.