$120,000 to save a photo

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

How many pictures could you afford to save at these prices.

 

[480sparky]

 

[Moab Man]

Funny thing is that today's photos are bigger than the storage capacity of those two combined.

 

[STM]

My very first HD in 1987 had 20MB of storage, which was HUGE when you consider that that I was using a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy before that and all of my programs were run off the 360 KB floppy disks.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

My very first HD in 1987 had 20MB of storage, which was HUGE when you consider that that I was using a 3.5" and 5.25" floppy before that and all of my programs were run off the 360 KB floppy disks.

I bought that 20MB drive to update my first PC. It had 512K RAM and a 10MB hard drive and had a super fast 4.77 MHz processor.

My present desktop has 24GB which equals 25,165,824K of ram. It had a 1.5TB drive which equals 1,572,864MB and the processor is 3.5GHZ which equals 3,500 MHZ

Times have changed a lot.

 

[Krs_2007]

Guess you didn't opt for the model with turbo boost. I remember installing 128k memory chips and thought I was the coolest. Even upgraded to replaced a floppy with a 10meg HD. To think we have 16 gig and up Zip drives you can carry on a keychain now.

 

[480sparky]

I had the world by the tail when I dumped my 7200-baud modem for a 14400.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I see I am not the only old guy on the forum.

 

[480sparky]

Eh? What'd ya say there, sonny? Speak up!

 

[Carolina Photo Guy]

1960's Removable Photo Storage

Forget megabytes. THIS will hold twenty POUNDS of images!

Of course, finding the right photo sucks!

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[fotojack]

Ah, memories! I remember my first computer...a 386DX with 4MB of RAM and a 4MB hard drive! LOL I sold my `86 GoldWing Aspencade to buy that computer. Cost me $4,000! I have more power in my little lap top now! lol Yes, times have certainly changed, indeed!

 

[riverside]

I see I am not the only old guy on the forum.

The 8086 with DOS was considered heaven sent in the accounting/financial community.

 

[Pretzel]

I had the world by the tail when I dumped my 7200-baud modem for a 14400.

The slow and steady upgrade process from 2400 baud to 56.6k was AMAZING! That was when I added a 2nd phone line for my modem and I couldn't imagine how communication could get any faster!

Of course, that's coming from a guy who got a TRS-80 for Christmas one year, and I was writing Zork like adventures and backing them up by way of redneck engineering and a home audio cassette player/recorder turned into a "tape drive".

 

[mikew_RIP]

Started with Amiga if a program came on more than one disc it stopped and told you to change discs,then i bought an ext disc drive boy was that fast working.

mike

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I started with a TI-99/4A when they first came out. Then I upgraded to the Commodore 64 and I thought I was in speed demon heaven. The next step was the IBM

 

[480sparky]

The slow and steady upgrade process from 2400 baud to 56.6k was AMAZING! That was when I added a 2nd phone line for my modem and I couldn't imagine how communication could get any faster!......

Just Google "Moore's Law".

 

[Dave_W]

Just Google "Moore's Law".

Is that still in effect? I remember thinking at some point we would hit a terminal maximum, no?

 

[Nikkon]

640K ought to be enough for anybody

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[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Is that still in effect? I remember thinking at some point we would hit a terminal maximum, no?

Actually Moore's law is going to be in the past very soon but not in the way you think. The latest leaps in tech are going to leave it in the dust.

With 3D Chips, Samsung Leaves Moore's Law Behind - Forbes

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

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When I got my first IBM PC and it came with a 10MB hard drive I was wondering how I would ever need more than that. Now I am sitting on 4 TB of storage and wondering how I can upgrade that.