Today’s awesome thing: Copying an 86 GB file from one drive to another, at 675 Megabytes per second.
I suffered through many months trying to overcome the limitations of CPU and hard drive speeds all through the 1980’s and 1990’s. Creo’s Computer-to-Plate machine (now Kodak) was a(nother) Dan Gelbart miracle in optics, mechanics, and electronics, but was also a voracious data monster that needed 5 Megabytes per second to meet its stated capacity to image a 32″x44″ printing plate at 2400 dots per inch in 3 minutes. At the time it took the fastest CPU available the DEC Alpha CPU to reach those speeds. Not we just yawn…
