I'm Getting Old

[bjarvis]

About 15 years ago, I spent something like $5k CDN to purchase a 32 MB VME memory board --about 18 inches on each side-- for a Sun 4/280.

Today at Staples, there was a bin at the checkout counter of 64 MB flash memory USB fobs for $7.60 each. At first glance, I mistook them for candy.

Gad.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I know! Memory cards are now cheap as I don't know what price wise and I've noticed that anything less than 64MB seem to be extinct now and even 1G SD cards are getting really affordable now.

Heck, even HD's are now so cheap that a crappy 300GB Seagate drive can be had at Fryes for less than $100.

I remember when it was the big thing to hear of HD's getting to 1G back in the mid 90's...

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah... at about the same time I was buying the memory board, I also bought a 2 GB SCSI hard drive for the same server. At that point, our rule of thumb was that one paid $1 per MB of data so the 2 GB drive was a bit over $2k. Now it's pennies per MB and our iPods have more space than past disk arrays.