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Memory is cheap. 256GB is about $30. That's enough for anything you're likely to need on a phone. If you blow out of that, 512GB is around $100. I have a 128GB Micro-SD on mine and it's not even 10% full.

I'd rather disable the phone. There are a *lot* more people who call, telling me that I'm late on my timeshare payment, or that I have an outstanding warrant and unless I... I get none of that via text. Some political crap during sillyseason but that's all.

On my phone it's called "ignore it".

Whoosh!

Even 256GB isn't enough to hold "a whole library in the phone."

Well, OK, I guess it depends on the size of the library.

We have a couple of these around the neighborhood. They would fit.

whopping 15MEGABYTES ( 5 or 10 was normal) and we thought we had the world by the tail when Conner came out with 300MB!!!!!

Reduced to text and jpegs of illustrations significantly less?? (apparently about 15 Terrabytes)

Text files: Nearly 678,000 pages per gigabyte. Emails: More than

So yes, a smalltown library of fiction and nonfiction could conceivably fit on a cell phone, including the reference desk

My phone number is apparently very close to some parole officer's number.

It's been a while, but I went through of period of time getting texts and voicemails from people saying things like:

(RIP John Belushi)

"Mr. Blutarsky...This is Shondale Lewis. Please call me back. I need to stay at my brother-in-law's tonight."

or

Mr. Blutarsky...This is Jamaal Stevens. I'm going to be late to our meeting. I can't find a ride."

or

Mr. Blutarsky...This is Steve Johnson. I can't go to the interview. My son is sick."

I had no idea the PO's real number and I wasn't about to call these people and tell them that they had the wrong number. I just blocked the number. I'm sure some of them got in trouble. Oh well.

One time I got a call from a social worker asking me to call her back about one of "my" clients.

"Mr. Blutarsky, Carlos Hernandez wanted me to call you to discuss his situation. Please give me a call."

I looked her up and the agency was legit, so I called her back. I explained that she had the wrong number and that it wasn't unusual for me to get calls for Mr. Blutarsky. "Am I correct that he is a Parole Officer?"

When she said yes, I asked her where she got my number. Her client had written it down for her, so it wasn't her fault. I'm not sure why so many people got it wrong, but I asked her - if she did manage to get in touch with Mr. Blutarsky - to let him know that many of his parolee's had the wrong number.

I haven't got a call in a while, so maybe it helped.

Lighten up. It was a joke.

Of course, libraries, even small town ones, don't just contain text files. Some books are chock full of illustrations and high quality images.

In any case, ask J if he really has a whole library in his phone or just *access* to a whole library.

They have move the web site new url

You can get phones with 32 gig for under 50 bucks, new. Personally my shirt pocket contains half a terabyte. And I still occasionally giggle when I look at the thing.

Hey, I didn't say it was a _big_ library.

Sure it is. It holds my whole library.

As long as it's smaller that 128GB, all is good. ;-)

My music library is only 5GB. It's not that small.Jon,

Whole communities have fewer books than that. Probably even fewer are ever checked out. I have to admit, though, I haven't read a paper book in something like five years. I've read a bunch of e-books and now I listen to an audiobook every three to twenty days (Atlas Shrugged takes 63 hours).

I have 128GB on the phone and another 256GB on an SD card. My first PC had 64K (for about a minute, then I stuck in a 256K card). My first hard drive was 10M. I thought I had it all. Hell, mainframes only had 16MB of RAM.

I used to get email for an IBM senior HR (called "personnel" at the time) VP, with the same name. Often it would have something like corporate salary plan data.

Shoe on other foot: My pay stubs started going to a temp in building maintenance (also with the same name). I'll bet he thought it was a great place to work, at least until he saw his bank balance. It's a fairly common name, at least for those born at around the same time. Mom said it had something to do with a trash novel about the time I was born. ;-)

The attached article states that the attached article would not have fit in RAM on the Apollo 11 Computer. ;-)

The Lunar Lander computer was essentially a pocket calculator. IIRC it was a 1-bit processor.

Even the shuttle on-board computers were weak. On the ground, they had to load the launch software into some and the next step (orbital insertion?) into another then turn it off until it was needed (core memory), then orbital maneuvering, then de-orbit...

Honestly, I only use 120 GB on my personal computer. I never filled more than half of my 256 GB SSD.

This was a 5 MB hard disk in 1956...

Well yes, that works, but it's nice to not be bothered by it ringing. I wish I could do the same with telemarketers and scam calls on my land line, other than hanging up.

I don't actually have a land line anymore. I do have a phone number on my Skype account, which costs something like $25 a year, so people can call me. Nice thing about that is that it rings on every device I have. And I can block callers so that they never ring.