Thought I hit the jackpot...

[jowensphoto]

I cleaned my house this weekend and found a memory card lying around. It had a big 16 on it, so I assumed GB. Popped it in my camera, it had 2 photos from an old P&S. The camera read "Card Full" so I formatted. Still got "Card Full".

Took a look at the card, it's 16 MB! One RAW file from my camera is at least 20MB. LOL

Pretty crazy how far we've come!

 

[mrpink]

Cool story.

 

[Dao]

Yes, it is amazing to see how the technology advance. I still have a Seagate harddisk looks like a tank in my basement. It is only 2GB in capactity, but it takes up 2x 5 1/4 drive bay.

Maybe I should take a photo of it with a 2GB microSD card.

 

[KreGg]

And I thought my old 256mb card was already vintage stuff

 

[Big Mike]

I've got an 8mb CF card around here somewhere.

 

[jowensphoto]

I guess I've just become so accustomed to large GB cards that I didn't even think to check it. I was convinced the card was defective for at least 10 minutes. lol

 

[cgipson1]

I have you all BEAT! I paid like $600 dollars for my first 20 Megabyte Hard Drive! And Jess's ancient SD card was nearly as big at that.... lol! ( Am I dating myself?)

 

[ctfeet]

Way back when in a previous life I worked for Texas Instruments doing field service and I remember when the first "Winchester" hard drive came out. They billed it as the last disk you will ever need and it was a whopping 5MB!

 

[tyranniux42]

Haha classic, I remember my first computer which at the age of 4 was pretty neat, it was an ibm compatible with a 25mhz processor, 4mbytes of ram and a 60 meg hdd which I ran stacker on, it effectively tripled capacity but was slow!

I actually remember vividly the day that Intel released the pentium 200mhz too ... Strange memory to recall but hey im a geek

 

[cgipson1]

Way back when in a previous life I worked for Texas Instruments doing field service and I remember when the first "Winchester" hard drive came out. They billed it as the last disk you will ever need and it was a whopping 5MB!

Geez.. you are older then me, then... and I dated Methuselah's Grandmother! lol!

 

[GnipGnop]

Oh yeah! Well the random computer bit I bought at a specified date in the past is more ridiculously priced than your ramdom computer bit you bought at a specified date in the past.

Technology!

 

[Big Mike]

I had an Atari ST computer...didn't even have a hard drive. Every program had to be run off of a floppy disk.

 

[LadyJasmine]

To this day, my husband doesn't understand what the difference is between kb, mb, gb, and tb.

I find it funny that in order to explain anything to him about a computer... I have to use an engine as an example...

 

[Dao]

I had an Atari ST computer...didn't even have a hard drive. Every program had to be run off of a floppy disk.

My first computer was an Apple with 6502 processor that running at 1Mhz. I got a single sided floppy disk as well. I considered myself being lucky since my classmate only had a tape drive and it took awhile to load a game Falcon.

 

[Austin Greene]

Pssshhh terabytes are where its at