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Announced »  Monday, 15 June 2009   It just seems like yesterday
that we had to partition a forty megabyte drive since MS-DOS
could only address 32MB.  Optical storage was going to replace
magnetic storage, too. I learned that from Datamation in about
1970, and again every 5 years since then in one source or
another. And we did finally get ubiquitous optical storage --
but just as an archive and transfer medium, so far. I suspect
this was caused by the same thing as rotating magnetic remaining
around even though solid-state met its goals; the price of
rotating magnetic dropped immensely more than people
anticipated, and the demand for large storage is higher than
anticipated.  I remember my first hard drive in the '80s. 40MB,
big for the day. I did everything I could to fill it up, and I
recall that I made it just a bit past 22MB...  Now, just like
many people, I am bummed that I can't use anything bigger than
500GB in my laptop! That is, actual