Looking back...and forward

How long ago do you have your first memory of computers? I can remember 1983 or 1984 working on either an Atari 400 or Atari 800 computer in the lab to write a program that took only bytes of memory. Later on, around 1987 or so I purchased my very first personal computer. It had an entire megabyte of memory and a 20M hard drive. I couldn't fathom filling the thing up with data. That was back in the old days when the metaphor for how much data storage could hold revolved around how many pieces of paper it related to.

Fast forward to now. iTunes has made us able to have our favorite television shows and music and movies right on our desk. I first filled up 250G of external storage with my iTunes stuff, then quickly blew through 400G. Yesterday I received a new case with enough power to run an entire terabyte of storage dedicated almost completely to iTunes...I hope that will get me through this last season of Battlestar Galactica!