OUCH!

Found an old receipt for a Sandisk 2GB CF from 2004. $242.00. Ouch.

I remember buying a 128mb proprietary card for my Sony Cybershot for $60 in 2002. My how the world has changed.

Holy cow, I forgot about the 100mb Smart Media cards I bought in 2003 for $100/ea.

Pfaf! My first computer hard drive held 25 megabytes and cost $500, which was about 3 weeks' pay.

ScubaDude wrote in post #14751419
Pfaf! My first computer hard drive held 25 megabytes and cost $500, which was about 3 weeks' pay.

Geeez... I remember buying my first computer with a built-in hard drive, an IBM PS/2 with a whopping 30mb hard drive and color monitor for somewhere around $2300.00. Before that it was the old mono computer with dual 8" floppys (one for OS, one for program/data) and was still like $1200 in the early 80's. Look how far we have come in 25 years...

Firemike wrote in post #14751443
Geeez... I remember buying my first computer with a built-in hard drive, an IBM PS/2 with a whopping 30mb hard drive and color monitor for somewhere around $2300.00. Before that it was the old mono computer with dual 8" floppys (one for OS, one for program/data) and was still like $1200 in the early 80's. Look how far we have come in 25 years...

HA!! My first PC (a Zenith Z-160) came with no hard drive and cost almost $3000. It had 256k RAM; a 1 megabyte add-on card was $1000 (that's one million dollars per gigabyte). Damn... I'm getting old.

Ron Bailey wrote in post #14694903
Found an old receipt for a Sandisk 2GB CF from 2004. $242.00. Ouch.

You don't want to know what I paid for a 6gb microdrive (cf) around the same time.

MY first computer was handmade and given to me.... it had 6 loops with varying colored beads on it that were moved from one place to the next to tally things...

No word processing program. That was accomplished with a papyrus roll and a feather dipped in squeezed berry juices...

I recall a meeting i had years ago with Hans Geyer, at the time he was the VP in charge of Intel's memory division. He commented "the winner in this business is the one that can afford to lose money the longest. so far we're winning"

I remember buying a 340mb CF microdrive in about 2001 for about £250.
It was a small hard drive with moving parts (rather than the solid state of today).

I remember my first laptop, an NEC Ultralight Versa, one of the first with a color active matrix screen (10 inch), 4MB RAM, 180MB HDD and dual PC Card slots...$4300! (I could have bought a desktop system for a third of that, but I wanted the portability, and it was neat, but boy did I pay for it!)

LOL nine years ago, I paid $89.99+tax for my 64MB SD Card.

I still have it just for the s**ts and giggles

You don't want to hear what my 10 MB PCMCIA Type 1 or 40 MB PCMCIA Type II (HDD) cards cost, let alone the 340 MB PCMCIA Type II. But my Omnibook 300 and later 600 really appreciated them. For that matter, I could re-equip my Omnibook 800 with an 8 GB CF card for less than I paid for the 8 GB 2.5" HDD when I upgraded it from the factory-supplied 2 GB (and that includes the CF-IDE adapter!).

I once paid $900 for a 150 MB (yes, megabyte) ESDI drive. It died one month after the warranty expired. Grrr.

I paid $200 for a 4mb SRAM PCMCIA card once. It could be a LOT worse.

Those things were backed up by a watch battery, BTW.