I was going to ask a question yesterday. But then I remembered that I try never to ask a question unless I really want to know the answer. And I decided I didn’t want to know.

I was going to have another quote to go along with the HNT photo and it completely slipped my mind. Here it is:

Come back when you have an idea in your head instead of a nail.

That was from my brother and I’ll spare you the backstory for now.

The computer I’m using at home is a five-year-old notebook. It still does fine with internet access, blogging, email, and some word processing. I can’t run some of the software that I use at work, but I’d rather do that at work anyway. It has a 30GB hard drive (about 25 GB useable storage after partitioning, formatting, OS, etc.) But I happened to check last week and had only about 700MB free space left. WTF!?

So I deleted a couple apps I don’t use and got about 1.5GB free. Then I realized why it was so full. I bought an mp3 player (Archos Jukebox) about four years ago that is a 20GB hard drive. For the last four years I’ve been ripping my CDs to load up the player, but I’ve been keeping everything on my hard drive too. Thing is, I almost never listen to the songs on my computer. So I made sure that everything had been transferred to the player and deleted about 12GB of songs from my hard drive. (I’m leaving the X-mas music on it for a couple more weeks.)

So now my Jukebox is about 3/4 full and I have lots of free space on my hard drive that I can start filling up with photos from the new digital camera (Canon SD400) that I bought a couple weeks ago! The experience made me think (dontcha HATE when that happens?) about this:

  • The first computers I used were dumb terminals connected to a mainframe — no local processor, memory, or storage.
  • The first computers I had in my classroom were Apple IIe machines — 1MHz processor, 64KB RAM, floppy disk storage (no hard drive).
  • The first computer I bought was an Amiga 1000 — 7MHz processor, 512KB RAM (that I later expanded to 1MB RAM with a board that I had to plug DIN chips into), and floppy disk storage (still no hard drive).
  • My next computer was an Amiga 2000HD — the first one I owned that had a hard drive, 50MB that I never filled up.
  • Ten years ago I was a network administrator and we could get 500MB hard drives for our IBM PCs for $500 each.
  • My mp3 player is a 20GB hard drive.
  • My Palm Pilot has 32MB RAM and I can put data on a 1GB SD card.
  • My new camera also uses SD cards.
  • For a while last week I had more free storage space on my camera than I had on my notebook.

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