1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now

[snowles]

I've actualy got the mail in rebate on two Lynksys air cards. $15.00 each time.

The problem with mail in rebates is that they favour the company too often.

From experience, 80% of the time we would forget to give them out, 5% of the time the store would not have any of them to give out, 5% of the time we`d give out the wrong one, 5% of the time the customer would get tired of waiting for us to find them one and just say forget it, and of the other 15% of people, at least 2 out of 3 of them would never send them out.

From what I remember reading, only about 5-8% of people actually end up getting the rebate that they`ve centered their purchase around, because of all of the hoops involved. More $$$ for the company though.

 

[#juan]

In the late sixties UBC bought an IBM 360. I can't remember how much they paid for it but I think it was about a quarter of a million dollars. At the time I was working for the Department of Transport, construction branch who had a terminal to that machine. One of the things I remember was a hand held calculator that was hooked to the terminal by a thick cable and about a seventy pin cannon plug. Apart from having a twelve digit LED display, that calculator would do almost everything my twenty dollar Radio Shack calculator will do.

 

[snowles]

Ain`t it great, there`s more technology now in one of our coat pockets than used to take up an entire building 30 years ago. Amazing...

 

[#juan]

Ain`t it great, there`s more technology now in one of our coat pockets than used to take up an entire building 30 years ago. Amazing...

I believe one of the students eventually got the 360. All he had to do was haul it away .....in a pickup truck. They also had a couple dozen reel to reel tape machines that went for free as well.......I don't know, but I always assumed they were for memory.

 

[Toro]

The shrinkage of storage is a fabulous development for humanity.

Without it, where would us men store all our porn?

Technology is awesome!

 

[belwood]

my first computer was a heathkit that had 1/4k of ram (yes, just 256 bytes) ran at 80Khz, had a hexadecimal keyboard and a 6 LED display.

 

[#juan]

my first computer was a heathkit that had 1/4k of ram (yes, just 256 bytes) ran at 80Khz, had a hexadecimal keyboard and a 6 LED display.

And the price you paid for that would likely buy several decent computers today.