Moore's brother's Law
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I just bought some 32GB thumb drives for A$4 each. I remember when I bought my first thumb drive, just over 16 years ago. 256MB for A$60. 128x capacity, 1/15* the price... and pretty much the same size. * More like 1/11, allowing for inflation Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I just bought some 32GB thumb drives for A$4 each. I remember when I bought my first thumb drive, just over 16 years ago. 256MB for A$60. 128x capacity, 1/15* the price... and pretty much the same size. * More like 1/11, allowing for inflation Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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On my first computers HDD drive I ordered "extra 50 MB" of space for 100 €. It was in the lucky 90-ties of last century.:cool:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
My first computer - an Amstrad 1640 - I upgraded from twin 360KB floppies to 1 32MB hard drive. Which cost £400 back then, around £1000 in modern money ... about the same as the rest of the computer!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just bought some 32GB thumb drives for A$4 each. I remember when I bought my first thumb drive, just over 16 years ago. 256MB for A$60. 128x capacity, 1/15* the price... and pretty much the same size. * More like 1/11, allowing for inflation Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Be careful to test them. Some of the "bargain" thumb drives run at USB-old speeds and get really hot. At least in my experience. I do remember replacing a 40 meg (not gig) hard drive with a 120 meg ($300) instead of an 80 meg because it would be all I would ever need. I now have W10 and S2016 VM's over 150GB. :(
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Be careful to test them. Some of the "bargain" thumb drives run at USB-old speeds and get really hot. At least in my experience. I do remember replacing a 40 meg (not gig) hard drive with a 120 meg ($300) instead of an 80 meg because it would be all I would ever need. I now have W10 and S2016 VM's over 150GB. :(
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
These are name-brand, store clearance prices. USB2.0, but I don't have any 3.0 slots to poke them in. My first PC was an XT clone, with a whopping 10MB disk. And an 8087 that cost an arm and a leg. My home server currently has 8TB of RAID1.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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On my first computers HDD drive I ordered "extra 50 MB" of space for 100 €. It was in the lucky 90-ties of last century.:cool:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
My first experience with a HDD, I was working as an assembler programmer on an Apple II and the boss bought a 5MB drive. I don't know how much he paid for it but I don't imagine it was cheap. Thing sounded like a jet taking off when it started up.
The less you need, the more you have. JaxCoder.com
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My first computer - an Amstrad 1640 - I upgraded from twin 360KB floppies to 1 32MB hard drive. Which cost £400 back then, around £1000 in modern money ... about the same as the rest of the computer!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
£400 is what I paid to upgrade the 8KB of memory in my Commodore PET to a massive 16KB! What a powerful machine! A PET Users Group guy who worked for a local insurance company mentioned that their mainframe only had 8KB of memory at that time! I paid £1,200 to add a twin floppy external drive box to my PET a little later. 2x 1.02MB 5.25" floppies (at the same time!) Who who ever need more space than that? I had a box of 5 floppies (which cost quite a bit, I don't remember) and I still had 2 left, unused by the time I sold my precious PETs off to a local business I wrote some software for.
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I just bought some 32GB thumb drives for A$4 each. I remember when I bought my first thumb drive, just over 16 years ago. 256MB for A$60. 128x capacity, 1/15* the price... and pretty much the same size. * More like 1/11, allowing for inflation Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
I remember paying: - ~17$ for a single blank CD - back at a time when it was trivially easy to end up with a coaster - ~700$ for 64MB of RAM (not GB, MB) - ~900$ for a scanner - ~1600$ for my first 17" LCD monitor If car prices followed the consumer electronics trend, I wouldn't be driving a 15-year old car.
