One for the computer enthusiasts

[Chippy_Tea]

Great value for money !

 

[oldjiver]

Where's the key to wind it up?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Where's the key to wind it up?

That add on is another $1000 :lol:

 

[morethanworts]

I've still got a 48k Spectrum somewhere. :whistle:

 

[honeymonster]

When clearing out the warehouse at work (I'm a photocopier engineer) I found a pile of 8mb memory upgrade kits. Almost as old as I am!

I particularly like the part where it says it works out at under $200 a meg! About half the cost of competing systems?!?!?! :shock:

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

What's the going rate for hard drive storage these days? 0.5p/Mb? Less? It's a while since I last bought one, and that was about 1.5p/Mb for an external drive.

 

[adomant]

Is that the coal fired one

 

[oldbloke]

I've got a platter from an old EDS8 disk drive upstairs.
14" diameter, about 1/8" thick, weighs over a kilo, stores 2Mb.

Oldest working machine I have is a couple of BBC Bs

 

[oldjiver]

How long before we laugh at the stuff we have now? Not long I'll bet :lol:

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

Ten years. DNA-based data storage systems are currently being researched which are expected to become commercially available within the next decade, which have data densities around ten million times that of a typical flash card. If successful, it will be possible to store the sum total of all data produced by humans so far in a device the size of a briefcase :shock:

 

[bobsbeer]

That hard drive was probably in this lap top :lol:

 

[MattN]

Every time I buy more memory I am staggered by the cost (in a good way).

Moore's law seems to be accurate all this time later.

Take a look!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

 

[sledgehammer]

Ha ha
Between myself and dad we have a good collection of old computers
Aim 64 (PCB mounted on plywood with a dot matrix single line display keyboard and a thermal printer)
Spectrum 48K
BBC B
commodore Vic
Rockwell system with a dumb terminal
Commodore PET
and loads of other stuff too
we even have one of those old consoles you plug in the back of your TV and play PONG on :) my sister was playing it and i got the gun from the other game it plays and you can shoot the ball while there playing (that really annoyed my sister :twisted: )


Steve

 

[keith1664]

Which makes the 2 8gig SD cards I bought earlier for £7.97 worth £605,338.80

Edit, I misread that as 100Mb not 10! - my cards are now worth £6,053,888..... anyone have a time machine?