16Mhz to 1.83GHz in 11 years

   Technology is so amazing to me. I suppose that's why I'm such a technogeek. The Athlon Sempron processor I put in my new machine is less than a centimeter sqaure. Of course the heat sink is huge, but it amazes me to think that a tiny little thing like that is running my PC. Last night I was thinking about our family's first computer - a 386 running at a blazing 16Mhz. I think it had about 4MB of RAM and a whopping 110MB hard drive. My first PC was an AMD 233. Now I'm up to 1.83Ghz. More power than the Voyager space probe in my office.
   The new puter is up and running now. It takes only about 20 seconds to boot up! I'm like a little kid at Christmas - each program that I load I get all excited as I watch how quickly it opens up. I still have more programs and files to move over to it. And of course I'd be having some issues with the CDROM drives. My resident Network Admin just called from his cell phone with possible solutions. I just love him! :) So now I'm going to do some troubleshooting and listen to my holiday musis playlist. Funny how I can get into the holiday spirit when I'm not in retail land.