Amara’s law

dxdiag

Old Wishlist (don’t buy)

Hardware Benchmark

  • https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

Trading In

https://checkcoverage.apple.com

  • Screen protector, case
  • Factory reset the device
  • SIM card

CPU

  • Pentium
  • Pentium II
  • Pentium III
  • Pentium IV
  • Core 2 Quad
  • Xeon
  • M1

Single 8 MHz CPU to multicore CPU at easily 2 GHz each.

16 bit CPU to 64 bit.

Video Cards

  • NVIDIA GTX 500 Series Owners Club
  • NVIDIA 1080

Hard Drive

40 MB hard drive was a thing. We now have several GB to TB.

Speed of hard drive have also drastically improved. From 0.1 MB / second to 500 MB / second.

Solid State Drive

M.2 SSD

SATA M.2 SSD, 6 pins and 5 pins wide

NVMe M.2 SSD, just 5 pins wide

RAM

640 KB RAM was a thing. We now easily have 8-16 GB RAM or more.

Modem

Motorola Surfboard SB5100 Cable Modem

Floppy Disk

1.44 MB floppy disks was a thing. You now have GB in disks the size of a lipstick.

Uptime

Highest uptime: 46 days

sifer@home:~$ uptime 04:15:52 up 18 days, 8:43, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.21, 0.59

Interfaces

All this will be outdated in a few years because of the speed at which technology improves but new technology is based on and developed from old technology.

Drive Interface Standards

Interface Standard Speed Notes
IDE/ATA 2.1 2.1 Mbps - 8.3 Mbps 528 MB limit PIO modes 0-2
ATA-2/Fast ATA 16.6 Mbps >528 MB, 4 IDE devices PIO modes 3-4 DMA 1-2
ATA-3 Nominal speed increase   
SMARTATAPI-4, Ultra ATA, Fast ATA-2, Ultra DMA Modes 0-2 DMA 3333 Mbps Introduced DMA modes & 80-conductor cable
ATAPI-5, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra DMA 6666.6 Mbps Ultra DMA modes 3-4
ATAPI-6, Ultra ATA/100, Ultra DMA 100100 Mbps 80-conductor cable required Ultra DMA mode 5>137 GB ATAPI-7, Ultra ATA/133133 Mbps Ultra DMA mode 6
Serial ATA (SATA) 150/300/450 Mbps 7 pin cable

IEEE-1284 - DB25 Male to C36 Male Parallel Printer Serial Cable

RCA Female to Mini DIN 8-PIN Connector Adapter Video