By Robert Brown Peter Parker, aka SpiderMan, is a teenager who lives in Queens. Peter lives with his aunt May and his uncle Ben, because as a child his parents left and later on died in a plane crash. Peter’s … Continue reading
What computer storage has evolved into today.
by Gabriel Hernandez
I’ll be honest, learning about computers in general does sound pretty mundane. But have you ever wanted to know where all your free apps, your collection of 506 selfies, and your illegally downloaded music goes? Each of these things are broken into bytes, and stored in drives. I’m assuming that you are familiar with the word gigabyte or GB, which is equal to 1 billion bytes. Seems like a lot huh?
Let’s start from the beginning. In 1947, the IBM 350 was the first disk drive to ever be invented. To lease one (yes, you had to lease one) would run you about $3,200 a month. Was it worth it? Well back then, owning digital space was like owning an IWatch. Only a few people had it, and to less fortunate people at the time it seemed stupid. Fast-forward about 20 years, and the invention of the IBM 2314 was introduced into the technology market. Thankfully, IBM gave the market a different style of hard drives, making them disks. Each disk drive could hold up to 29MB of storage. As a good bonus, they were easy to put in and take out, as you would have imagined. Go another 20 years in the future, and the first Gigabyte HDD drive was created. IBM invented the 3380 to accommodate the rapidly growing internet and computers. This HDD drive held up to 2.25GB of memory, and was the size of the average refrigerator: at least 14ft tall–and with size came price, with a tag of $81,000.
Only a couple months later, IBM’s only rival, Seagate invents the first 5.25 HDD drive. Unfortunately, this drive could only hold about 5MB a pop, and had a price tag of $1,500 at a time, but now would only go for less than a dollar. After another 20 years, the first USB drive is invented by Trek ThumbDrive. It could hold up to 125GB of memory, and could fit in the average person’s pocket.
Nowadays, we don’t even need tangible computer memory anymore. The invention of cloud memory was introduced in the 2010’s. There is currently 1EB (exabyte) of memory in the cloud storage: thats 8,192,000 125 GB memory sticks or 9,162,596,892,133,330 .12 KB hard disks! I bet you didn’t even try and say that number.
To sum up this article, I just want to bring awareness to readers about how vital computer memory is. Without it, we can’t do our jobs, and we can’t function as a society.
by Jariel Perez
Windows is a very popular operating system (aka an OS). There are a variety of versions of Windows to run on your personal computer (aka PC). Microsoft Windows computers usually come with fast processor; at least a GHz or more comes with every Windows pc. I have experience with Microsoft computers, so I can I tell you whether or not they’re worth the money you’d pay. They are! When I browse the Internet on Operah (using Speed Dial) or Mozilla (using Bing), the results will show up very fast. If you are looking for a gaming pc, a Cyber power pc with a Windows OS would be very powerful. You would be playing with 60 frames per second (FPS), which is fast.
Overall, I recommend buying Microsoft PCs, not because of popularity, but because of Windows’ performance.
The Eagle Express 