Well, This certainly puts things into perspective!!! :D

That would need one hell of a camera to shove that "card" into.......
I can't wait to see the next comparison in 30 years :D
 
Will it fit in my mobile :lol: ???

It is actually amazing to see how far technology has came in the past couple of decades!
even if i am 16, from what i have read, seen and been told it is just amazing :)
 
When i did Computer Studies at school in the 80's i had to by my own 5 1/4 inch floppy which would hold 720kb that was the entire years work.

That thing is EEEEEnormous.
 
i have a 2 gig micro SD card in my phone :lol:

are you sure thats not a washing machine though? or a flux capacitor :D :lol:
 
Well I did a bit of research and it looks like an IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device.

Taking into account that a 1GB card now costs about £5 that thing in 1981 cost somewhere between $81,000 and $142,200 :rules:
 
Col_M said:
Well I did a bit of research and it looks like an IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device.

Taking into account that a 1GB card now costs about £5 that thing in 1981 cost somewhere between $81,000 and $142,200 :rules:
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Well, you're certainly right about it being an IBM; It says at the bottom :D

But yeah, not cheap eh?!
 
When I started in the computer industry, we had 2Mb disc drives that had a 24" vertical mounted plattern and used one head per track. They needed a 2 hour clean air purge every month. A rep from Data Recording Company came to demonstrate the 5Mb removable disc...about the size of a dustbin lid and could be hand carried....we all thought he was day dreaming!
An 8k memory module weighed in at about 15 kg and was mounted in 19" racks....big systems had 8 of them!...the maximum due to the address lines and had about a 40kHz clock frequency.
All this was in the mid-seventies.

Bob
 
i remember when we got our 386 many years ago, we bought 2mb of extra RAM for it (which doubled its current capability!) and it cost over £100........

i think i can upgrade my laptop with 2GB of memory for about £30 thesedays!
 
i remeber my first working day cleaning out an office basement full of WANG equipment! The hard disk's was the size of a phone box! so 10 skip loads of old equpment was replaced by 2 average size servers!
 
whitewash said:
i remember when we got our 386 many years ago, we bought 2mb of extra RAM for it (which doubled its current capability!) and it cost over £100........

i think i can upgrade my laptop with 2GB of memory for about £30 thesedays!
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I bought a 486 just as the pentium 90 was launched, the 486 was £1500, if I wanted the pentium 90 it added another £600 to the bill :lol:
 
Remember the good old days of Window's 3.1 that could run on a 33mhz computer with just 8mb ram?
 
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