{"id":310,"date":"2010-07-10T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/?p=310"},"modified":"2010-07-10T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T23:23:11","slug":"the-discounted-price-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/the-discounted-price-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The discounted price of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever proper computer was an Amstrad PC1512DDMM (512K of RAM, 2 x 1.2MB 5.25&#8243; floppy disk drives and a Monochrome monitor &#8211; no hard drive)<\/p>\n<p>When I started work, part of my first pay packet went towards buying a 32MB\u00a0 external hard drive for around \u00a3250 &#8211; around \u00a37.80 per megabyte &#8211; it was like having 25 floppy disks permanently loaded and was amazing !!!<\/p>\n<p>After recently having problems with my PC I figured now was a good time to &#8220;wipe and re-install&#8221; and rather than reinstalling Vista, I figured I&#8217;d go with the new Windows 7 but because the current hard drive had my data on (and was quite full) I figured it was easier to buy a new hard drive, install Windows 7 on it and then transfer the data over so I went looking for a replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The current drive was a 70gig and was bought as part of the machine 2.5 years ago. I was dumfounded yesterday to buy a 1 terabyte drive for a mere \u00a346 +VAT &#8211; thats 0.005 pence per megabyte (4.6p per gigabyte) &#8211; 156,000 times cheaper than 23 years ago. Who&#8217;d a thunk it !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first ever proper computer was an Amstrad PC1512DDMM (512K of RAM, 2 x 1.2MB 5.25&#8243; floppy disk drives and a Monochrome monitor &#8211; no hard drive) When I started work, part of my first pay packet went towards buying a 32MB\u00a0 external hard drive for around \u00a3250 &#8211; around \u00a37.80 per megabyte &#8211; it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-business-services","category-the-family","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}