Memory lane (if you excuse the pun)

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Was having a little clear out earlier and came across this old memory card.

A whopping 64mb in size!!!
I remember when these were the creme de la creme of memory cards and cost a pretty packet too!
I've also attached a photo of what the memory card was in :lol:

Amazing how memory has expanded so rapidly in such a short time.
 
I think the size of my memory is inversely linked to the increase in size of memory cards. The more memory they get. The less I have.
 
I've got some smart media cards somewhere and expresscards for a laptop (Like PCMCIA Slots but never caught on)
 
My smallest is a 16 meg CF. Came with a CP3100 IIRC.

I asked the surgeon to install a decent sized upgrade while he was in there tinkering. He told me that if he could, he would but also that if he could, he wouldn't be working in the NHS!!!
 
Wifi is working then @Nod

Thought you would be out aurora chasing!:D
 
MWHCVT said:
Hell somewhere I have a 4mb CF card :p
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Snap.
It came with my first ever digital camera. ..a Fuji Finepix FZ6100 which I still have and still works :lol:
 
I'll take your memory card and raise you a ZX Spectrum.

This isn't actually my one, but I do have one in the attic and it still works (y):D who needs memory cards when you have cassettes? lol

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CaveDweller said:
I'll take your memory card and raise you a ZX Spectrum.

This isn't actually my one, but I do have one in the attic and it still works (y):D who needs memory cards when you have cassettes? lol

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I loved my ZX spectrum, that and my Acorn Electron. I learned how to code basic on them
 
CaveDweller said:
I'll take your memory card and raise you a ZX Spectrum.

This isn't actually my one, but I do have one in the attic and it still works (y):D who needs memory cards when you have cassettes? lol

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:lol:

I will take your ZX Spectrum and match it with an Acorn Electron (also tapes)
 
jakeblu said:
I loved my ZX spectrum, that and my Acorn Electron. I learned how to code basic on them
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They were certainly more complex that I noticed at the time. I was only a kid so I spent more time waiting for games to load whilst I ate my dinner than learning basic coding lol. would be interesting to dig it out the attic some day and have a blast on it. I have a working Amiga up there as well.
 
stupar said:
:LOL:

I will take your ZX Spectrum and match it with an Acorn Electron (also tapes)
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We DID have one of them. My sister recently raided my folks house to find it and sell it for stupid money :( The Spectrum, Amiga and the usual old gaming consoles are the only survivors of her wrath because I'm hiding them at my house :D
 
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CaveDweller said:
They were certainly more complex that I noticed at the time. I was only a kid so I spent more time waiting for games to load whilst I ate my dinner than learning basic coding lol. would be interesting to dig it out the attic some day and have a blast on it. I have a working Amiga up there as well.
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When I was at school computers were not for the masses, I was in my late 20's before I bought my first. I went down the Atari ST route after the Speccy/Electron, ah happy days, replacing the cassette player with a disk drive was such a joy :)
 
Can't remember what age I was when I first played the Acorn but I do remember having to sync pressing the tape player buttons and hitting return on the keyboard to get a game to play.
As for programming, mine were full of "syntax error" :lol:
 
Dragon32 for me... Wasn't mine but my mate had one and we spent hours programming things out of a book. He had a cassette recorder, but you inevitably had to spend about an hour fiddling around with the Tone screw on the reader head before the computer would load anything... it was often quicker just to write the programme again!
 
I still have my first computer: An Ohio Scientific Superboard II
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Memory Lane:
Back in 1980, when we bought it, a 4kb upgrade cost about £63.
Today you can pick up 8Gb of memory for about £50-£60.
Working that out, 8Gb at 1980 prices would cost more than £132 million... ShockDeath.gif
 
Tori_T said:
I still have my first computer: An Ohio Scientific Superboard II
View attachment 32485

Memory Lane:
Back in 1980, when we bought it, a 4kb upgrade cost about £63.
Today you can pick up 8Gb of memory for about £50-£60.
Working that out, 8Gb at 1980 prices would cost more than £132 million... View attachment 32486
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The thing that always amazes me is what these early machines were able to do on so little resources, hell I remember my first computer and you had whole games on a 1.44mb floppy disk, now I'd need about 15 of those to take one photo....same as my first digital camera could fit about 30 photos on a 4mb CF card with quality set to best...I'd need about 8-9 of those cards to fit a single file out of the 5D3
 
My first desktop PC, bought from a computer fare, had a whole 2GB hard drive. :lol:
 
My parents first buy into the world of PC's was in the early 90's.

It was a Packard Bell
It was a 486sx with 25mhz CPU, 4mb ram and 100mb HDD running windows 3.11 and it was s***!!!
 
All this talk of megabytes - that's high tech! When I joined the IT world. we had minicomputers with 16kb memory boards that were 40cm x 40 cm - huge PCBs, this was in 1983!

Programs were loaded from 8 inch floppy discs or cassette tapes - this was in the banking word - not home use!

Chris - I feel old now
 
My first computer was cassette tape. The Apricot mentioned above was one of the first computers to adopt the 3.5" floppy disk, although it only held 360kb or thereabouts, not the 1.44Mb that they eventually managed to held.

My BBC B had twin disc drives, one 40 track, the other 40/80 switchable. Those were 5 3/4".

My dad recalls working with computers using punched cards.
 
I've still got an Amstrad CPC6128 with colour monitor buried in the loft somewhere.
 
MWHCVT said:
Yeah I seem to remember my first proper PC an AST it had something like a 64htz processor, 4mb RAM and I seem to remember a 1.6gb HDD
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First PC I used had a winchester drive and you had to park it when you finished :)
 
I knew someone who worked with some old Sun 3/xxx systems. They referred to their data storage systems as "warp drives", 'cos they sounded just like this:
...when they were turned on. :vulcan:
 
Our first "computer" was an Atari 800XL, no idea of the spec although I'm guessing it was a 64Kb RAM affair like the Commador 64. Then went on to an Amiga 1000 which I loved, some truely brilliant games albeit with not such brilliant graphics by today's standards.

In 1998 I bought my first PC from Tiny. IIRC the spec was an Intel Pentium processor with a 96MB RAM an 11GB HDD and a brute of a 17" CRT monitor :lol: It also came with a "free" 1.3MP digital camera and 16mb memory card for the princely sum of around £1600 :lol:

Over time I upgraded the RAM and added a CD burner but it really wasn't cutting the mustard so I bought a Dell in 2003 which was a Pentium 4 processor, 1GB RAM, 96GB HDD and a nice 15" LCD monitor (think I paid aroudn £700 for that). The old beast is up in my loft and as far as I know still operational but I haven't fed the hamster in a while.

When I look how much I paid for those machines and the spec/performance of my current i5/16GB PC I find it staggering how much things have moved on in such a relatively short space of time, not to mention mobile phone progress in that time too.

My Grandad's were both into technology and gadgets, they passed away in 1997 and 2000 (both in their late 60s at the time) and I often wonder what they would make of the tech that's available now.
 
Russ77 said:
Our first "computer" was an Atari 800XL, no idea of the spec although I'm guessing it was a 64Kb RAM affair like the Commador 64. Then went on to an Amiga 1000 which I loved, some truely brilliant games albeit with not such brilliant graphics by today's standards.

In 1998 I bought my first PC from Tiny. IIRC the spec was an Intel Pentium processor with a 96MB RAM an 11GB HDD and a brute of a 17" CRT monitor :LOL: It also came with a "free" 1.3MP digital camera and 16mb memory card for the princely sum of around £1600 :LOL:

Over time I upgraded the RAM and added a CD burner but it really wasn't cutting the mustard so I bought a Dell in 2003 which was a Pentium 4 processor, 1GB RAM, 96GB HDD and a nice 15" LCD monitor (think I paid aroudn £700 for that). The old beast is up in my loft and as far as I know still operational but I haven't fed the hamster in a while.

When I look how much I paid for those machines and the spec/performance of my current i5/16GB PC I find it staggering how much things have moved on in such a relatively short space of time, not to mention mobile phone progress in that time too.

My Grandad's were both into technology and gadgets, they passed away in 1997 and 2000 (both in their late 60s at the time) and I often wonder what they would make of the tech that's available now.
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I remember playing "Alien Breed" on the Amiga.
Oh what an addictive game!
 
Up to recently I had some old rll and mfm hard drives including a priam 519 which was 130mb and the size of a shoebox
 
I started selling PCs around about the time of the IBM launch. I remember showing off to my flatmates by taking an Olivetti M24 home because it had a 10Mb hard drive rather than the usual twin floppies. We didn't have any software for it so we just sat there running CHKDSK or DIR and going ooooh.

Trying to prentend it wasn't heavy was another memory with the early Compaq Portables :LOL: (about 13kg apparently.....compare that to a Macbook)

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IIRC, the unofficial term for those suitcase sized CRT portables was "luggable".
 
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