JaiDee Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 1; Available today at Wal-Mart - 16 gigs for 10 bucks 2; 10 years ago; half a gig for 159 bucks 3; 1982 - LOL 4; 1955 ....no joke, only half a meg! Price unknown but surely not cheap. Quote Link to comment
Snick Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 My first was about 5mb, cost about a $1000 Quote Link to comment
TEXASMAC Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Electronic prices go down, but escort prices have gone up. This is such a cruel world we live. Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 My hard drive has been around for about 58 years also but recently it has been losing some of its memory and speed due to considerable substance and other sundry abuse over the years. I tried rebooting many times but to no avail. Like the drives above, it too has skunk in size however its capability has diminished rather than the contrary. Perhaps if I had been born a MAC rather than a PC...hmmmm. Quote Link to comment
Hoot Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 That gets me all nostalgic of my initial years in the IT business. In the early 90's we were selling 1-TB EMC arrays. They were the size of a couple of refrigerators, heavy enough to have flooring requirements, contained 100s drives, and sold for about $1 Million. Today a 1 TB drive can fit in your back pocket and cost you about a hundred bucks. Quote Link to comment
xyzzy Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 I have my portable Linux system on one of those 16G Walmart drives. Old phart alert! Back in the late 70s when I broke into the computer business I was working on an advanced scientific computer that had a amazingly fast 8 MHz clock speed and 24 or 32 K of RAM. Didn't need a lot of storage with 24k of RAM. Quote Link to comment
CheekyCharlie Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Mine needs a blue tablet fuelling once i a while. Do they call it insurance............ Quote Link to comment
ArchieBunker Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Whats a hard drive?? LOL!! JaiDee will appreciate this!!! Oh BTW my mobile phone (in the US of A) has an antenna!!! Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Archie was on dial-up until 2011 -when he FINALLY took my advice to get broadband - so anything he says about tech stuff needs to be taken with a grain of salt. And I thought *I* was a luddite! Archie's current PC and cell phone below; Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Archie's current cell phone below; Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Haha, I remember when Wall Street came out; Michael Douglas was the king of the hill and had all the cash he could ever want, and THAT was the best he could do! 1987.....hell, he was lucky to have any cell phone at all! Quote Link to comment
TEXASMAC Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 pdogg, In Florida I use to work at Office Depot phone cost $1.00 but it took 2 hours to activate . plus a 3 year contract. Quote Link to comment
4:17 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 I've unsuccessfully resisted the urge to be a pedantic nerd and point out the fact that we're comparing flash memory drives with hard drives, which are in point of a fact a different storage medium, but still a point well made regarding capacity vs. price vs. size with regard to storage media over over the years ... I remember the good old days of Compuserve, and how exciting it was to get a 28.8 baud modem ... and those crazy fast 486 pentium machines. And how about those amazing 1.44Mbyte floppies! All that space on a 3.5-inch disk. Lawl. Quote Link to comment
xyzzy Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 My computers used a tape drive. Damn did we have problems with those... Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 A form of tape may make a comeback as a storage medium. Well maybe... I was at a Tech show in Hong Kong and was quite surprised when some guy gave a short lecture on the future of storage mediums and a special type of tape was proffered as the future. I cant remember the exact details as i was half asleep by then with jet lag but this has since appeared in certain Science journals and has some credibility... Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 we're comparing flash memory drives with hard drives, which are in point of a fact a different storage medium, Very true.....but according to the people predicting the future, ALL hard drives will soon be flash drives, no more hard drives as we know them. Yes, they are still a little ways away from making a whole terabyte or even 500 gig in a flash drive, but apparently in the not-too-distant future all our laptops and tablets and PC's will have flash drive technology. No more broken hard drives! Quote Link to comment
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