Wow Compact Flash card!

O.T. but I thought you might find it interesting.

I just found a receipt from B&H for a 2 gig Sandisk Ultra II from 2005.

$179.95

Tapeman wrote in post #15724970
O.T. but I thought you might find it interesting.

I just found a receipt from B&H for a 2 gig Sandisk Ultra II from 2005.

$179.95 (which is ~$5 in 2013 dollars)

FTFY

Storage, more than anything, seems to take the biggest price hit over time.

Sounds about right i paid $100 for two 512mb sd cards when i bought my d50 in 05. Memory prices are rediculous like that

£338 (that's $500) for a 200MB hard drive some time back around 1992

How about $500 for a Sony DVD player,$4,000 for a 52 inch rear projection TV and $2,000 for a
32 inch flat screen TV. I still have all three and they all work. I do believe in the late nineties CF cards
were at least three dollars per megabyte.

I remember buying my first Sandisk 128MB (yes MB) card for my old A20 (still have btw) for a cost of $130 + taxes.

I saw someone post a flier of some electronics store from 2004...the prices were insane!

That's why I generally tend to hold off on buying memory (both flash and stuff like external hard drives) until I REALLY need them...way cheaper that way

LowriderS10 wrote in post #15725905
That's why I generally tend to hold off on buying memory (both flash and stuff like external hard drives) until I REALLY need them...way cheaper that way

Very good advice! I try to do the same thing...

Bryan

I remember when 4GB sd cards and 1gb usb flash drives were stupidly priced. Now I can buy 2 16gb sd cards for $20 or even a very fast 32GB cf card is about $60. Craziest I remember is mid 90's edo ram was about $30/MB

My first laptop Hard drive was a whopping 1.3 gig

LowriderS10 wrote in post #15725905
I saw someone post a flier of some electronics store from 2004...the prices were insane!

Here's one you'll enjoy. Flier from 1996

$500 for a 1GB CF in 2000.

3Rotor wrote in post #15726089
Here's one you'll enjoy. Flier from 1996

wow that's crazy lol

silvias13 wrote in post #15726226
wow that's crazy lol

Or actually quite cheap. Step back 10 year more and you could pay $1000+ for 42MB HDD. Memory cards? Didn't exist.

From the original vacuum-tube computers filling big rooms, there have been a long progression of improvements and price drops. And there are always new things we can do with our computers as their capacity increases. Always new problems that was too hard to solve earlier.

The interesting thing here is that some technologies have managed to survive for so long. They guys making hard disks must not have realized that they worked with mechanics.

My first computer had a 128MB hard drive, 8 MB of RAM and cost $1200. It was a display unit on sale, the only way I could convince my ex to spend money for a computer. I forget what processor it had. That would have been in the early to mid 1990s.

I let my wife have it in the divorce

My first digital camera was an Olympus 1.2MP that cost me $900 in 1997 or so . It used 16MB Smartmedia cards. Great lens... horrible shutter lag. Still works. I gave it to my sister and brother in law, who use it for eBay photos. They had to replace the card reader recently and had a hard time finding one that was compatible with more recent operating systems (remember Win 98 and Millenium?).