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

[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.