{"id":607,"date":"2018-03-04T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T20:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2018-03-11T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:56:52","slug":"youre-know-youre-getting-old-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/04\/youre-know-youre-getting-old-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re know you&#8217;re getting old when&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you begin to notice the pace of change kicked in the after burners. (or, rather, how many forms of technology you have known.)<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I\u2019m more in the know regarding technology because I\u2019m old (50) and I do have a collection of antique computers (from the 70\u2019s onward \u2013 anything older is just too darn big to collect!) Forms of media for storing data. These are the forms I know and have used to store data:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Random Access Memory (RAM, turn the computer off and it\u2019s all lost)<\/li>\n<li>Flash RAM (keeping data with power off, began in EEPROMS and later could be rewritten \u2013 think BIOS)<\/li>\n<li>Cassette (first computer, the built-in counter became very important when storing multiple programs)<\/li>\n<li>Punch Cards (freshman in college)<\/li>\n<li>Green Bar Tractor Fed Paper (sophomore in college, not erasable, but vital when turning in homework)<\/li>\n<li>5.25\u2033 Floppy Disk (high school and upgraded first computer)<\/li>\n<li>8\u2033 Floppy Disk (first job using a computer used these. I was still in high school.)<\/li>\n<li>3.5\u2033 Floppy Disk (Macs in Cobol programming class in college)<\/li>\n<li>Magnetic Reel to Reel (used while working in computer lab in college)<\/li>\n<li>Hard Drive (largest size and smallest capacity in my collection is 10Mb \u2013 not Gigabyte)<\/li>\n<li>Bernoulli Drive (cartridge system, added 3\/11\/18)<\/li>\n<li>CD-ROM (even started creating a guild to CD-based software)<\/li>\n<li>Rewritable Magneto Optical Drive (HP Storageworks Optical, added 3\/11\/18)<\/li>\n<li>DVD-RW (much more storage, but still tedious for backups)<\/li>\n<li>Tape (used for backups, dozens for formats)<\/li>\n<li>Zip (cartridge for archives and backups by Iomega)<\/li>\n<li>NAS (Network Attached Storage) \u2013 (Buffalo, Synology, Iomega, etc. added 3\/11\/18)<\/li>\n<li>Flash Drive (or usb drive, started at around 1Mb and now I have some that are 256Gb)<\/li>\n<li>SSD Drives (replacing hard drives with solid state flash memory)<\/li>\n<li>Internet\/Cloud (taking many forms)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was going to write about other forms of media, but now realize this list is getting quite long. I\u2019m so old! At least I never used paper tape (holes punched in tape to store data).<\/p>\n<p>I think later I will talk about how each impacted our lives. I just have to think of a way to convey this without making myself fall asleep writing it (again, more naps \u2013 getting older!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you begin to notice the pace of change kicked in the after burners. (or, rather, how many forms of technology you have known.) I suppose I\u2019m more in the know regarding technology because I\u2019m old (50) and I do have a collection of antique computers (from the 70\u2019s onward \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-9N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}