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#171042 2-Apr-2015 20:36

I've seen alot I'm my time and this is incredible.

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#1276394 2-Apr-2015 20:42

Google the worlds first Hard drive, IBM Model 350 Disk File. it was 5MB in storage size vs Sandisks 512GB micro SD card now that is amazing :-)

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#1276403 2-Apr-2015 20:57

The first time I needed to increase RAM, I bought one of these 16KB RAM Packs.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_pack

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#rampack

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#1276420 2-Apr-2015 21:24

My first computer, a Dick Smith VZ200 had a memory expansion port.

You could plug this brick of a thing in the back and increase your memory by a whopping 16 KB of RAM. I think it cost about $160 in the mid 1980s.

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#1276427 2-Apr-2015 21:28

The price of one gigabyte of storage went down from $300,000 in 1981 to 5 CENTS in 2015.

1981 - $300,000
1987 - $50,000
1990 - $10,000
1994 - $1000
1997 - $100
2000 - $10
2004 - $1
2010 - $0.10
2015 - $0.05

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#1276445 2-Apr-2015 21:45

Lurch: Google the worlds first Hard drive, IBM Model 350 Disk File. it was 5MB in storage size vs Sandisks 512GB micro SD card now that is amazing :-)

Sandisk don't have a 512GB microSD card. They have a 200GB microSD card out in May, and a 512GB SD card.

Still though, that is amazing when you think back to not very long ago.

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#1276454 2-Apr-2015 22:00

I'm still so embarrassed when I recall the huge sums of money I spent on crap stuff in the early days. But I didn't spend $3,390 on a 10 MB disk! I think my first 10MB HDD was $720. My first CDROM was $1,200! Ouch. Double ouch, considering I didn't even have much to put in it. And my first digital camera (Canon 2000) was around $2,300. Still goes, though!

Anyway, enough of these horrible memories.

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#1276468 2-Apr-2015 22:28

My 120gb ssd was $946!

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#1276474 2-Apr-2015 22:34

We used to dream of MB...

My first home computer had a 1MHz 8085, 32KB RAM (upgraded from 16KB), and a 50KB floppy. I deliberately avoided the cheap machines that displayed on a TV and used a cassette tape (can people even remember those?) for storage.

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#1276495 2-Apr-2015 23:10

Remember? Tape was the only option available for the ZX81 which we started with.

When we first got the Commodore 64 floppy drives were rather pricey, so we settled for a tape drive again. We then waited for the 5 1/4" drive cost to come down to about $600-$700 (from memory).

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#1276526 2-Apr-2015 23:56

I remember paying approx $300 for an 8.6Gb Seagate hard drive in 1998. Which I installed in my 486. As an upgrade to the 230Mb drive. Wow so much space.

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#1276527 2-Apr-2015 23:57

when I did high school and uni, there was NO GOOGLE. we had to actually walk into a library, find the books we thought would give us the answer we needed, searched for DAYS to WEEKS, before getting half the answers. yes.

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#1276529 3-Apr-2015 00:12

joker97: when I did high school and uni, there was NO GOOGLE. we had to actually walk into a library, find the books we thought would give us the answer we needed, searched for DAYS to WEEKS, before getting half the answers. yes.

Last time I made a similar comment about theiPhone and still being at uni and got accused of being a pervert by generation Z. Not only are people becoming increasingly impatient, but also rude

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#1276535 3-Apr-2015 00:47

Sideface:

The price of one gigabyte of storage went down from $300,000 in 1981 to 5 CENTS in 2015.

1981 - $300,000
1987 - $50,000
1990 - $10,000
1994 - $1000
1997 - $100
2000 - $10
2004 - $1
2010 - $0.10
2015 - $0.05

Nope,

US$119 / 5TB

2.3c per gig.

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#1276537 3-Apr-2015 00:49

Stu: Remember? Tape was the only option available for the ZX81 which we started with.

When we first got the Commodore 64 floppy drives were rather pricey, so we settled for a tape drive again. We then waited for the 5 1/4" drive cost to come down to about $600-$700 (from memory).

That one was so expensive because they stuck a whole computer in the drive and then connected it to the c64 with a crappy slow serial connection.

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#1276599 3-Apr-2015 08:30

My most abiding memory over that time scale is preparing a huge stack of punch cards to try and get a simple Fortran program to run. It was a major advancement to be able to sit at terminal and type instructions and then save the working program to a floppy disk! And I could take the disk with me, but only the one because they were pretty expensive.

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