Cern's Vital Statistics

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I know the CERN project has fallen out of the press recently, but I've actually started reading the Computer Weekly and Computing Magazine that land on my desk each week.

This week, Computing has a section on the technology behind Cern - man I'd had to do tape backups for this place

Man, that'd make some noise.

The pace of technology is quite, quite scary.

I know that compared to some of you I'm a bit wet-behind-the-ears where IT is concerned, but even I had my beloved CPC-464 before moving on to my first 'proper' PC - a Packard Bell (ptoeey) with a 1GB hard drive and 8MB RAM.

1GB then was *massive* but I remember having to upgrade the RAM within months to run games I wanted.

But 1GB was massive then, and a small matter of 10 years later I possess a lappy with a 250GB HDD and a 1.5TB external hard drive is well within my sites for a Crimbly present.

So we already have 120GB (or is it 160GB now) MP3/MP4/video players.

How long before they're 1TB?

And when I finally spawn children, are they going to be running around with iPods that have 1PB of storage?

That's just scary...