+BlazingOtters Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I have just spotted this .....and I thought my 4GB card was big. Just think how many maps/cache details you could store on that. Quote Link to comment
+Tiger-Eyes Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I wonder haw many products could actually cope with a card that big My camera refused a 2gb Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Oooooh! Where? How much?... etc Quote Link to comment
+BlazingOtters Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Oooooh! Where? How much?... etc Due out in April, the price will be approx : $350 (£176/€235). Which could be more than the device you use it with!! Quote Link to comment
+Cushie Butterfield Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) I have just spotted this .....and I thought my 4GB card was big. Just think how many maps/cache details you could store on that. Unfortunately most devices (camera - phone - PDA - MP3) which are using SD / MMC cards will not work with the new SDHC standard. I'm sure that a new generation of many SD based products are around the corner, but do not be tempted to try SDHC cards in your present devices as it might just leave you a few bob short in your wallet. If you want to know if your device can use SDHC read it's technical spec. Edit - This post was edited by someone other than me. It appears that I'm being watched!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW I never posted anything controversial Edited February 7, 2008 by Moote Quote Link to comment
+PopUpPirate Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. Was that floppy, too Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. are you sure you've got the right units here? and was it painful..? Quote Link to comment
NickPick Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. are you sure you've got the right units here? and was it painful..? I think that Dr Solly has some history in computing (especially judging by his name), so I expect he has got his units right. 64kb of memory used to be a lot. My old BBC microcomputer only had 32kb! Quote Link to comment
The Royles Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I bought 16k ram pack for the ZX81 for £30 ! Quote Link to comment
+Kryten Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 A 32k RAM board to upgrade my 16K Spectrum to the "Full Spec" of 48k was £35. Quote Link to comment
+purple_pineapple Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. are you sure you've got the right units here? and was it painful..? I think that Dr Solly has some history in computing (especially judging by his name), so I expect he has got his units right. 64kb of memory used to be a lot. My old BBC microcomputer only had 32kb! i was being rude - I don't believe members are measured in Kb... inches maybe.... Quote Link to comment
+Mr'D Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) My Spectrum had 16kb. Anyone had anything smaller than that? Edited February 7, 2008 by Mr.Dewdrop Quote Link to comment
+rutson Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 My first computer, ZX81 had 1kb. Quote Link to comment
+Mr'D Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 Oh yes I forgot about that one! Quote Link to comment
Archangel_UK Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 What was Bill Gates quote about " all the memory you`ll ever need " ? Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I have just spotted this .....and I thought my 4GB card was big. I don't think it's as big as my ex's 32DD though! Quote Link to comment
+Munkeh Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 notice how its ex! Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 I can remember paying £200 for a floppy disk drive for an extra 1.44mb of memory I remember paying £80 for an extra 64kb of member. are you sure you've got the right units here? and was it painful..? I think that Dr Solly has some history in computing (especially judging by his name), so I expect he has got his units right. 64kb of memory used to be a lot. My old BBC microcomputer only had 32kb! Oops. I meant memory, dunno where that other word came from. Yes, I do have quite a lot of history in computing! And yes, I did mean 64 kilobytes. It came as eight chips, and I had to plug them into sockets, one by one. A little while later, I bought a 10 mb hard drive, and that was priced at £1000, but I persuaded them to sell it to me for £600. Quote Link to comment
+Amberel Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yes, I do have quite a lot of history in computing! And yes, I did mean 64 kilobytes. It came as eight chips, and I had to plug them into sockets, one by one. A little while later, I bought a 10 mb hard drive, and that was priced at £1000, but I persuaded them to sell it to me for £600. I designed and built my own Z80 CP/M machine back in the late seventies. The floppies held 112KB and cost £500 each. 64 chips for the RAM, 1KB each. The whole thing cost upward of £2,500, and in 1979/80 that was a LOT of money. But it paid for itself. I wrote a chess program on it to teach myself programming, and when Sinclair brought out the ZX81 I ported the program onto it in a few days and quickly got it on sale at £15 a pop. So while it cost an awful lot to build, I ended up getting my money back many times over. Rgds, Andy Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Yes, I do have quite a lot of history in computing! And yes, I did mean 64 kilobytes. It came as eight chips, and I had to plug them into sockets, one by one. A little while later, I bought a 10 mb hard drive, and that was priced at £1000, but I persuaded them to sell it to me for £600. I designed and built my own Z80 CP/M machine back in the late seventies. The floppies held 112KB and cost £500 each. 64 chips for the RAM, 1KB each. The whole thing cost upward of £2,500, and in 1979/80 that was a LOT of money. But it paid for itself. I wrote a chess program on it to teach myself programming, and when Sinclair brought out the ZX81 I ported the program onto it in a few days and quickly got it on sale at £15 a pop. So while it cost an awful lot to build, I ended up getting my money back many times over. Rgds, Andy Same here. I splashed out £1900 for an IBM PC in 1983, because I thought IBM would sell a fair few to businesses, and soon after we started selling software for it. Turned out to be a good move! Quote Link to comment
+The Great Redmondo Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I bought 16k ram pack for the ZX81 for £30 ! ...and said ram pack didn't fit very well. I remember spending all night typing in the 'Basic' of your latest masterpeice exploiting all 16 grayscales only to have the ram pack move and you'd lose the lot. Then you discovered that a matchhead strategically placed could save your frustration... My how the evenings used to fly by... Quote Link to comment
+The Great Redmondo Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 What was Bill Gates quote about " all the memory you`ll ever need " ? The original PC that the majority of us use today was only ever designed to map 640Kb of memory. This was deemed to be more than enough for any foreseen application. When this became difficult, we had all sorts of complex mapping technologies to provide extended or expanded memory to 1 Mb...luxury. Quote Link to comment
+scottpa100 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Look at all you old techy nerds reminiscing. You all talk like having small amounts of computer memory was actually a good thing. Now you see, with my Commodore Vic20 with 3k of memory... Quote Link to comment
+scottpa100 Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 The original PC that the majority of us use today was only ever designed to map 640Kb of memory. This was deemed to be more than enough for any foreseen application. When this became difficult, we had all sorts of complex mapping technologies to provide extended or expanded memory to 1 Mb...luxury. Who can forget the joys of DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF :D I need to get a life. Where's me GPS and cache list? Quote Link to comment
Lactodorum Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 I suppose I should jump on the bandwagon too. My first computer was an Ohio Superboard. I saved a few quid by buying a "kit" and soldering in all the components myself. I remember the thrill when I switched it on and actually saw text on the attached TV monitor! Sad really I suppose As for the whopping 4K RAM!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Grizzly Pair Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 When I were a lad we lived in't shoebox in't middle ut t'road.............. I have contributed to Drsolly's sales figures over the years, we now have to beg our hardware people for Gigabytes of memory and Terabytes of storage to keep our systems running. Sigh, nothing to do with caching though. Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 When I were a lad we lived in't shoebox in't middle ut t'road.............. I have contributed to Drsolly's sales figures over the years, we now have to beg our hardware people for Gigabytes of memory and Terabytes of storage to keep our systems running. Sigh, nothing to do with caching though. I still have some pairs of Dr Solomon's socks, some of the more amusing t-shirts, and a baseball cap that I wear for geocaching (making a heroic attempt to stay on-topic). Quote Link to comment
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