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Home users had tape backups since the 80’s. The problem was, nobody actually backs up so not enough people bought tapes/drives so they quit making them.
by bluedino 6y ago
Home users had tape backups since the 80’s.
The problem was, nobody actually backs up so not enough people bought tapes/drives so they quit making them.
- rualca 6y agoWell, nowadays digital documents, such as videos and photos, are much more important and widespread and mundane than they were a couple of decades ago. During the 80s there was no digital consumer camera market. Nowadays every person can easily generate hundreds of megabytes of photos and videos per day. Each hour of a 4K video can be close to 7GB, and we're already seeing cellphones which are able to record 4K video at 60fps and 1080p videos at 240fps.
- webmobdev 6y agoShucks - It was too early for its time. Did they even have RAM in MB's during the 80's? :)
- chihuahua 6y agoJust barely. It was possible to buy a PC with 2 or 4MB of RAM in the late 1980s, but you couldn't do much with it. On Windows/DOS, I think applications had to be written specifically with "extended memory" or "expanded memory" in mind. There were 2 incompatible "standards" for how to organize memory beyond 1MB. On the Mac side, in 1989 you could apparently buy a Mac IIci for $6200 with 1MB or 4MB, "expandable to 128MB".