12/07/2026
Imagine carrying this to a meeting in 1986🤭
The Sharp PC-7100 was considered a portable computer, yet it weighed over 10kg. It came with 704KB of RAM, a 20MB hard drive, and even featured a clip-on printer—an impressive all-in-one setup for its time.
Fast forward to today, and even the most affordable laptops are in a completely different league. A modern laptop weighing just 1–2kg can pack 8GB to 32GB of RAM, 256GB to 2TB SSD storage, powerful multi-core processors, high-resolution displays, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, webcams, and batteries that last for hours—all in a device thin enough to fit inside a backpack.
To put it into perspective:
💾 704KB RAM (1986) → 8GB RAM today is over 11,000 times larger.
💽 20MB hard drive (1986) → 512GB SSD today offers more than 25,000 times the storage, while being dramatically faster and more reliable.
The Sharp PC-7100 reminds us just how far technology has come. What was once cutting-edge innovation is now easily outperformed by a basic smartphone, yet these vintage machines laid the foundation for the powerful computers we use every day.
Technology doesn't just evolve—it transforms the impossible into the ordinary.
