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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in computer student in the 1995: "Wow! My professor brought in an IBM 3340 Direct Access Storage Facility disk from 1975! It was HUGE!" computer student student in 2022: "My professor brought in a flashdrive from 2002 and it was not surprising at all actually" by twovests

I think comparisons between desktop computers and SBCs would be the most common?

This 2002 high-end PC gaming guide has a 533MHz Pentium 4, 512MB RAM, a Ti 4600, and an 80GB hard drive. It comes out to $1070 without the accessories. (Probably like $2000 today?)

I don't know how well we can compare the graphics, but a Raspberry Pi 4B with a flashdrive handily beats this in many respects for under $100. Or a phone, etc.

I think VR is a fun one too, because we've settled on the idea of head-mounted displays decades ago but it took so long for it to be good enough to be interesting.

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