My eldest daughter pointed out that Dangermouse was dated by the evil supercomputer saying "kneel before my 500 Megabytes". When I was a lad ... we had the SDK 85 which was programmed in machine code and had a memory counted in K.
Followers of my blog will have seen the NHS question about how many reorganisations have we had. We've yet another. The number of PCTs (Primary Care Trusts) nationally is to halve. This means merging East and North. (and then probably HoB and south). It would be nice if people would stick with one structure. There is a quotation ( Which sadly does not appear to be a true quotation ) We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. But has to have been originated by someone. The web link shown goes through the derivation which appears to be more linked to an anonymous British Soldier WW2 than any Roman or Greek General called by a name perming 2 out of (Gaius, Galus, Petronius and Arbiter). From the...
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Multi-user banking systems on PDP-11s with 512k RAM...:)
Then along came Oracle...:)
My first Spectrum had a whopping 16k of memory. My first hard drive was 100Mb, I well remember selling customers PCs and persuading them to upgrade to 16Mb to get better performance out of Windows 3.1. I've still got an elderly iP133 MHz PC sitting on my home network with a decent 1Gb HDD.
I've just bought a new desktop with 2Gb of memory and 300Gb of hard drive to play with.
That sort of pace of change makes me feel very old.