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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 hours agoJust a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive. Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 hours agoWe’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved. /j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s junk”Parts” rack.)
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·53 minutes ago😁 ya my first “computer” was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue. It’s been a wild time in history.
Just a couple of years ago I was sent a dataset by mail, around 1TB on a hard drive.
Later I worked on visualization of large datasets, we didn’t have the space to store them locally because they were up to a PB.
We’re storing data in peanut butter? Please tell me there’s jam involved.
/j it’s amazing we’re talking about petabytes. My first computer had like 600 meg. (Pentium 486 cobbled out of spare- old- parts from my dad’s
junk”Parts” rack.)😁 ya my first “computer” was a ZX-81 with 1kB of ram, type too much and it was full! A card with a whopping 16kB later came to the rescue.
It’s been a wild time in history.