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Back in the Dark Ages, I was involved in a Revenue Management development project. First of many, in fact
(It was about the time I bought my first PC – Intel 386 33kHz, 8MB RAM, 105MB hard drive. Bleeding edge stuff. Cost a fortune.)
Among the myriads of consultants these sort of projects tend to attract, we had one guy who was a real crack.
He could write macros in Microsoft Word 5 (right – the one that came on two 1.44MB floppies..), manipulate bits and bytes in hex right on the hard disk and do all sorts of wondrous things.
He had a body to match his brain. Huge.
And he used to talk about the amount of storage we’d need for the huge quantities of data we were processing.
Stuff like “Gigabytes”!
We had to look it up in the dictionary. A thousand megabytes, fer chrissake!
So that name stuck. Went with his body. And his brain.
“Where’s Giga?”
PS
I splurged on a Nikon D80 yesterday.
I bought 2GB storage on an SD card for the huge quantities of data I’ll be processing.
It weighs 2 grammes and cost €40 and a bit.
PPS
I just looked at my desk.
I’ve got half a terrabyte of external storage sitting there…..
You Must Be From Away 
>Can you recommend a good external hard drive? I am clueless and memory-poor.
>I remember learning about the theory of Gigabyte storage systems way back when I finally got a PC at work with a hard drive. I thought it was a hoot that the computer started without the DOS floppy disk in A:. Back then we worked with 7.2MB of virtual storage. Sometimes I sincerely miss the simplicity of the pre-windows days, too. You could pin point to the problem when something went wrong and fix it. And typing is still faster than clicking. Miss the black screen with just the command lines.