San Disk micro sd card on sale...

Came across this deal today. San Disk Extreme Plus 512GB micro sd card for $129.99.

https://www.adorama.co​m/idsqxa1512gb.html

I can't believe these tiny things are up to .5 terabytes!

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18921728
I can't believe these tiny things are up to .5 terabytes!

And what seems so crazy to me is that they cost far less than a SSD of same capacity.

Why can't we get SSDs at similar costs for similar capacity?

SkedAddled wrote in post #18921777
And what seems so crazy to me is that they cost far less than a SSD of same capacity.

Why can't we get SSDs at similar costs for similar capacity?

you really want a SSD with those read/write speeds?

SMP_Homer wrote in post #18946606
you really want a SSD with those read/write speeds?

Twenty years ago this card would have cost you $1,536,000.00. CF cards back then were $3.00 per mega byte.

I set up some old computers for the kids to hack around on. They are downstairs in my computer crypt. Despite me telling them to keep their hands off my stuff, they are constantly digging out things and asking, "Hey dad, what's this?"

So last night I'm cooking dinner and they come rumbling up the stairs. "Hey dad, what's this?"

Beats the hell out of me. I say, "Looks like a graphics card" and explain how upgrading old computers used to be a thing before they became the silicon equivelant of a f'ing bottlecap.

We talk about it a little more as I put dinner on the table and I tell them to read whatever is on the board. Eventually they say "Apple Computer, Inc Copyright 1995"' and the little light inside my head goes off.

Original processor from my PowerMac 8500.

120Mhz.

Twice as big as my phone.

Think it had a 500mb hd

LOL! Twenty years ago we were writing image files to floppy disks with $900 Sony Mavicas.

We were using the Sony Mavicas with the floppy disks over twenty years ago. I remember quite well a young engineer telling me this is going to replace film. My reply to
him was what are you nuts,often think of that young man.

My first digital wrote to a PCMCIA card. Anyone remember those?

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18948873
My first digital wrote to a PCMCIA card. Anyone remember those?

Yep. Laptops commonly had PCMCIA slots for devices such as modems and network cards.

I still have a FujiFilm 1MP something-or-other, somewhere, which takes SmartMedia, described HERE.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18948873
My first digital wrote to a PCMCIA card. Anyone remember those?

And PCMCIA harddrives

SMP_Homer wrote in post #18946606
you really want a SSD with those read/write speeds?

No, but with capacity/cost so low for so much of the 'card' market, and the memory technologies
being very similar between those applications, I'd like to see the market's pricing come into line
more like the 'card' market's.

SkedAddled wrote in post #18948881
Yep. Laptops commonly had PCMCIA slots for devices such as modems and network cards.

I still have a FujiFilm 1MP something-or-other, somewhere, which takes SmartMedia, described HERE.

Informative, and fun (to look back) article ..... thanks for posting the link.

My first computer was a Tandy pc3....

Mine was a Commodore 64.