Yeah, 1Gig=1000Meg, and 1Tera=1000Gig, so 1,000,000Mb is a Terabyte. But to all the lay people 1 million megabytes sounds so much more impressive than a terabyte.

I don't think 1GB = 1 million Megabytes. Do your calculations right. 1 million megabytes would be a Terabyte which was quite a "sci-fi quantity" back then. Consider that we haven't seen consumer hard discs around the terabyte until some years ago. The only weird thing in hearing that line nowadays is that he uses megabytes as a unit of measure (it's like saying "the weight is two thousand pounds" instead of saying "a ton"), mostly because that's all people knew at the time. If he had said "one terabyte", in 1990 nobody would have known what it was.
Obviously it's hilarious that it takes off his face just to say its capacity. Probably at the time it just sounded like a "futuristic" thing to say while showing off that you're a robot. Today everybody knows what's a hard disk.

Cool story bro.

The movie was filmed in 1989, when it was rare to see hard drives of any kind, and the ones that were around were in a separate unit a bit larger than a laptop and had a capacity of less than 5 megs. Hell, that was the year my college set up their first computer lab that had actual desktop computers instead of dumb terminals that tied into the mainframe.
"We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow." - Charles Bronson

pretty funny

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