Storage and Moore's law
I took advantage of the Office Max deal recently mentioned on Boing Boing: 200 CD-R's for $5 after rebates (of course, one was taxed on $40...)
Their stated storage per CD is 700M. That's 140G for the box. For two and a half cents each, less than four cents/gig (let's ignore the tax.)
I thought back to the computer I was using just 15 years ago. An Apple IIe. A single-sided floppy held 140K. By the late '80's you could get them cheap in bulk — I forget exactly for how much — but when I first got my Apple, a box of 10 went for upwards of $20.
A single CD would hold five thousand single-sided Apple II floppies. The box? One million of them.
How quaint are my CDs going to look 15 years from now?
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