Memories.

Was cleaning some old stuffs and came across these old floppy disks, CDs and HDDs.. I have a special attachment with these stuffs. I still couldn forget the day I bought my first CD. Its a Office 2000 disk. I used to literally sit and count how many floppy disks I have to stack to compensate the data capacity of one CD. Later came Windows Me. Slowly CDs became a common thing. Those days, apart from softwares there was nothing to store which will occupy this much capacity. Movies / Songs were not quite common in CDs. The only files I could possibly generate were tally files, word files and html files saved from internet which all put togeather wont exceed even few 100 MBs. Then came mp3 songs. slowly my 4 GB HDD was full. Then I moved to 10 GB followed by 40 GB which stayed for a long time. My first Comp had 32 MB SD-RAM with which I could play only NFS II. My first customer gave an order for an PC with 64 MB RAM. Whoa! It was a day for gaming. NFS III requies a minimum of 64 MB RAM. So played NFS III for one full day. Today we have 4 GB RAMs but still I see my friends complaining "System is too slow, I think we should upgarde the RAM".

The first boot disk I created.

First CD bought for Rs. 500.

Now its all crap ! :-( (and is getting thrown away)

I have seen the shift of technology from wordstar (WS) to microsoft word. DOS to Windows 95 - cursor with program manager. Dave to Wolf 3d, Quake 3d, etc... LOGO, GWBasic, Foxpro to C, C++, VB, Java, Oracle. Lotus123 to Microsoft Excel. B/W CRT serial monitor to 14" Colour CRT monitor to 21" TFT Flat monitor. 16 MB RAM to 4 GB RAM. 300 MB HDD to 1 TB HDD.

But still I am preserving few memorable things.

Cannot forget the days without Google, Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, YouTube, Torrents, IRCTC, CD, DVD, Blue Ray, mp4, divX, USB port, Pen Drive, Wi Fi, Bluetooth, Photoshop (to my access), DSL connection and the list goes on...

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