My new hard drive has been completed and is being shipping as we speak. Since it’s quite large (5 MB), I had to charter a charter Pan American Airlines Stratocruiser to bring it down to Austin. Take a look at my new baby:

Isn’t it amazing how much can happen in 50 years? The drive pictured above holds 5 MB. No, not Gigabyte–Megabyte. It’s circa 1956.

Though, I do believe that more has happened in computer technology in the last 20 years than the last 50. The desktop PC did a lot to push things forward. I remember writing programs on 64 KB of RAM, and that was a lot. I dreamed of adding a 10 MB hard drive to my Atari 800 XL. I could hold everything I every owned on that! When CDs first came out I was amazed that you could fit 640 MB of content on one disk. How could you use up that space? Truely amazing.