Isn't technology incredible?
So I was sitting here thinking about how Star Wars still seems pretty modern, especially compared to other films from the same era, and that got me thinking about how much technology has changed since then. I knew the changes were big, but I didn't appreciate just HOW big. Recently I've been messing around with a Raspberry Pi (the mini computer, not the dessert!). They use an incredibly tiny little card (called a Micro SD card) for their storage. Now, let's go back in time to the balmy, halcyon days of 1977 when Star Wars was released in the US (it was released in the UK the following year). Queues outside Mann's Chinese Theatre for Star Wars in 1977 At the same time, this advert was published in an American newspaper: 1977 Hard Disk Drive from US advertisement As you can see, a colossal (for the time) 10MB hard disk drive would be a bargain at only $3,998. Now, let's jump forward a few years. When I was growing up and started playing with comput...