Singularity is Near -SIN Graph - Magnetic Data Storage

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17	Countdown to SIN -logarithmic
18	Countdown to SIN - linear
19	Paradigm Shifts for 15 Lists of Key Events
20	Canonical Milestones
48	Growth of U.S. Phone Industry
49	Estimated U.S. Cell Phone Subscribers
50	Mass Use of Inventions
57	Dynamic RAM Smallest Feature Size
58	Dynamic RAM Price
59	Average Transistor Price
60	Transistor Manufacturing Costs Falling
61	Micro Processor Clock Speed
62	Micro Processor Cost per Transistor Cycle
63	Transistor per Microprocessor
64	Processor Performance (MIPS)
65	Total Bits Shipped
67	Moore's Law - The Fifth Paradigm
70	Exponential Growth of Computing
71	Growth in Supercomputer Power
73	DNA Sequencing Cost
74	Growth in Genbank
75	Random Access Memory
76	Magnetic Data Storage
77	Price Performance (Wireless Data Devices)
78	Internet Hosts - Logarithmic
79	Internet Hosts - Linear
80	Internet Data Traffic
81	Internet Backbone Bandwidth
82	Decrease in Size of Mechanical Devices
83	Nanotech Science Citations
84	U.S. Nanorelated Patents
98	Real Gross Domestic Product
99	Per-Capita GDP
101	Private Manufacturing
104	E-Commerce Revenues in the United States
106	U.S. Patents Granted
107	IT's Share of the Economy
108	U.S. Education Expenditure
129	Reduction in Watts per MIPS
159	Resolution of Noninvasive Brain Scanning
160	Brain Scanning Image Reconstruction Time
331	U.S. War Death

Year	Bits per Dollar	Vendor	Type
1952	0.2033	Ferranti Mark 1	Magnetic Drum
1956	158.8	IBM 350 Disk File	Rotating Disk
1966	1437	IBM 2314	Rotating Disk
1970	6941	IBM 3330-I	Rotating Disk
1974	12380	IBM 3330-II	Rotating Disk
1980	20040	Discus M26 Hard Drive	Rotating Disk
1980	19910	Morrow Designs	Rotating Disk
1981	15320	NorthStar Hard Disk	Rotating Disk
1982	11310	Discus M5	Rotating Disk
1983	14500		Rotating Disk
1984	41210	Percom	Rotating Disk
1985	77440	Seagate Hard Disk	Rotating Disk
1986	214090	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1987	333200	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1988	417700	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1989	539600	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1990	611500	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1991	1613000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1992	2078000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1993	4985000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1994	7067000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1995	29450000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1996	32720000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1996.75	54050000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
1997	61560000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1998	87180000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1999	243600000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
1999.17	415300000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
2000	541000000	Seagate	Rotating Disk
2001.17	2283000000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
2002.25	4812000000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
2003.17	6552000000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
2004.17	11820000000	Maxtor	Rotating Disk
Magnetic Data Storage, Bits per Dollar (Constant 2000 Dollars), Logarithmic Plot, pg 76 Sources: Seagate, “Products,” http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/index; Byte advertisements, 1977–1998; PC Computing advertisements,March 1999; Editors of Time-Life Books, Understanding Computers: Memory and Storage, rev. ed. (New York:Warner Books, 1990); “Historical Notes about the Cost of Hard Drive Storage Space,” http://www.alts.net/ns1625/winchest.html; “IBM 305 RAMAC Computer with Disk Drive,” http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ibm-305-ramac.html; John C. McCallum,“Disk Drive Prices (1955–2004),” http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm.