Flash Memory That'll Keep On Shrinking

MIT Technology Review ^ | Friday, September 2, 2011 | By Katherine Bourzac

[Red Badger]

[cuban leaf]

Must be a graphene ball. 8->

[ken in texas]

I bought a 40MB hard drive, ($350!) and wondered what in the world I was gonna go with all that SPACE!

Been there. Then I did the MFM to RLL controller swap. If you were lucky you could get 60MB out of it.

[Red Badger]

I’m at work and we are ‘cleaning house’ of our old equipment and junk today. I’m tossing old 386’s and monitors, floppy drives and all kinds of dust covered relics into the pile. Old test and measurement equipment, some TUBE stuff!................

[Bikkuri]

My first HD (not the first PC though) was a WHOPPING 12MB :o)
I think it was around $500..

The first mouse (1 button) was $126 >.<

[thackney]

Bookmark

[Right Wing Assault]

I’ve had a number die over the years

Me too.

And I lose the darn things. But I don't have that problem anymore. I find old hard drive cases and install them in those with a cable that comes out and plugs into the computer. Much harder to misplace. ;-)

[Right Wing Assault]

I built a computer from a kit back in I think 1976 and an 8k (That’s 8 kilobytes!) memory card cost $440. And I had to solder in the 64 2102 chips.

Here’s the instructions I found online.

http://bytecollector.com/archive/digital_group/documentation/hardware/dg_systems/system_cards/memory/8k_mem.pdf

[MosesKnows]

Remembering memory

The next time you load 4 gigs of memory into your $99 digital camera recall this picture.

[DTA]

>>>>>Does anyone make a graphene memory cell that I can plug in to my brain? THAT is where I need more memory...<<<<<

It's Labor day weekend. Just reboot your CPU, memory leak will be fixed by itself and you'll be just fine :-)

[Bikkuri]

I can't get to that link, for some reason :/  something is blocking it..

Anyway, yeah, my first was a TRaSh80 MC :p  (had to buy the 300 Bd modem and cassette recorder separately ;^) ) Was 1980..






https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10





At at least it got me into computers :)

The one before my HD PC was called Apple Laser with 128KB of ram..  I could be way off.. it has been decades XD







https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Laser_128





I do remember the 5.25 floppy drive and the first sim I got on it though..  Was Chuck Yeager's SR-71 flight sim... AWESOME at the time (stick graphics lol).

[Right Wing Assault]

I help someone move an old HD about the size of a dishwasher. The thing was VERY heavy. We struggled it out of the place he got it, into my van, out of the van, and into his basement. We found, mounted on the bottom, a solid piece of lead about 4”x12”x12”. Lead weighed 100 pounds.

Since the thing was top heavy, it needed a counter weight to keep from tipping over. Removing four nuts could have saved us a lot of grief. I got the lead. I loaned the lead to someone years ago and I haven’t seen it since. He probably made 100 pounds of bullets.

[Right Wing Assault]

The Laser was a copy of the Apple 2e, but it’s name was just Laser, since Apple didn’t make it. I’ve got one of them in the attic.

[Right Wing Assault]

The link downloads a pdf file. Maybe you don’t have the right Adobe software for it.

[Bikkuri]

Strange.. which link was it?
The only difference is it’s a secure connection (HTTPS) instead of a normal one.. maybe I should link the normal connection...

[Bikkuri]

Ah.. sorry, I see what you’re talking about.. Adobe software is no prob.. I have photoshop..

I will see if I can download direct..

ok.. It is downloading fine.. maybe I just didn’t wait long enough for the PDF to load :p

Thank you for the tip ;)

[roadcat]

Hey you guys, don’t just blindly trash that old stuff into the dumps. Some of it is valuable to us collectors of vintage computers. I recently sold a vintage Apple motherboard for $300 (could have got twice that but it cost me nothing because I originally bought 16 of them for only $10 total). Guys are buying vintage chips and tubes for big bucks. Too many are being recycled as scrap, depleting what’s left for collectors.

[bvw]

Drives of the vintage when I started. The removable packs held a massive 3 MB. Cost? $90K 1960's era dollars if I read the information correctly. And they needed special flooring, A/C, power supplies.

See http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-i.html

[Alas Babylon!]

My first: The Philco Ford 210. Installed in 1963. Revolving drum storage with 1" magnetic tape. Used at NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex until 1977.

[AFPhys]

4”x12”x12”
approx equals 10cm x 30cm x 30cm.
one liter is 10cm cubed ... so you are talking about 9 liters volume

One liter of water is one kilogram

Density of lead is around 11.5 ...
so your lead block was a bit more than 100kg ~= 220pounds