Putting things in perspective ....

In the late 1980's I got my first computer from my dear brother when he upgraded to a new 486 PC.
I was quite impressed that the 386 PC he gave me had TWO 500 megabyte hard drives. It used the new 3.5 inch floppy discs that had a 1.44 megabyte storage capacity.
   Today, in my pocket I have a flash drive that stores 16 gigabytes. That would be the equivalent of more than 11 thousand 3.5 flopy discs .... in my pocket.
  I remember how impressed I was when 700 megabyte CD's came out and then 4.7 gigabyte DVD's WOW. But that would still mean that I would have to carry 4 DVD's in my pocket to equal this one little flash drive. I almost bought a 64 gigabyte flash drive last week but, like I said in 1989 .. "I'll never use more than 500 megabytes of storage space."

P.S. I also have a 3 TB backup drive on my desk.That's more than 192 flash drives (16 gb) and more than 7 million floppy disks. It's good to put things in perspective.