Mass Storage Devices

The most entertaining (if this word is ever appropriate for a university lecture, it would be this class) part of this week's lecture is the discussion about mass storage devices; it really goes to show how far technology has rapidly evolved in the past few decades. One of the few interesting facts that I learned is why CPU chips are small. I'd always thought that the bigger the CPU chip is, the faster/more powerful it will be. Another cool fact is that USB sticks cannot be erased even if you drop them into the ocean! So yes, computer history can be exciting.