1 gig 20 years ago, and now

[burner1]

Sometimes forget how far we have come with techie things lol

Imagine the fuck off size the mp3 player must have been

[Welsh Pete]

WTF is that!! It looks like the disk brake from the Delorean from Back to the Future.

(..oh yeh, I know its a disk, honest )

[crazyal]

I remember going to a business computer show at the NEC in Birmingham back in '82 and one stand had a 20MB Winchester drive that resembled a dustbin.

What's computer technology gonna be like in the next 20 years - I can't even begin to speculate.

[lithho]

all i can say is thats fucking mad. look at it with the little flash card in shot, wonder what a gig will look like in storage terms in another 20 years

[satzzz]

all i can say is thats fucking mad. look at it with the little flash card in shot, wonder what a gig will look like in storage terms in another 20 years

Not only that but what compression rate/quality will we have by then MP178???!!!

[whatnow]

not to be cynical but a microSD would've been more effective, and that's comparing what seems to be a industrial experiment against a consumer unit, so really I wouldn't be surprised if 1GB of today's memory can probably be maybe about 1/4 of the size of a microsd...

[Mickey]

I remember buying a 1 gig scsii drive (£1000) when they first came out,cost me an absolute fortune. great to see technology from yester year. Soon youll be able to show a kid an old record player or vinyl disk and they wont know what the feck it is

[bomberman]

I remember spending almost three days money on a 28k modem some years ago....Now thats what I call fast.........

Good post

B

[MsDG]

I remember buying a 1 gig scsii drive (£1000) when they first came out,cost me an absolute fortune. great to see technology from yester year. Soon youll be able to show a kid an old record player or vinyl disk and they wont know what the feck it is

Eh? Cd's were available over 20 years ago... I know family's with teenage kids who have never seen records/record players.

[consoles]

i pulled out my 12" remix records from the 80-90's and my 10 yr old said "why have u got them big black cd's dad" couldnt stop laughing for ages.

[Epiphany]

My mum used to work in portals Mill which prints money for the whole of Europe and i have a photo of her working on the first computer that they installed in the mill. It filled an entire room!

[DJ OD]

Doesn't look like a standard IDE interface on that thing...


DJ OD

[FireBlade]

I remember the rule of thumb was a pound a meg spent somthing like 600 quid for a 200 mb 2.5 inch drive for my amiga 1200 one time ehhhh the good old days eh

[Mickey]

I remember the rule of thumb was a pound a meg spent somthing like 600 quid for a 200 mb 2.5 inch drive for my amiga 1200 one time ehhhh the good old days eh

so you also bought them very fast quantum fireballs, they sounded like a tin of nails being shook

[liveseytowers]

That is huge! Can't wait to see what things are like when my Daughter is 16, hope i'm not like my dad is and can't use a computer!

[funkyg]

I remember the rule of thumb was a pound a meg spent somthing like 600 quid for a 200 mb 2.5 inch drive for my amiga 1200 one time ehhhh the good old days eh

I remember spending my student grant for one term on upgrades for my Amiga 1200. 300 quid for a 512MB external Overdrive HD (went in the PCMCIA slot) and 200 quid for a 4MB memory upgrade/accelerator. 4meg!!!!
Still got my Miggy setup but probably hasn't been switched for about 18 months.