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Whoa. Hi-Tech
2006-05-14, 1:16 AM #1
This is a 4MB stick of ram in 1984

Amazing how much technology has changed over the years.

[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/4mbramvax.jpg/800px-4mbramvax.jpg]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:4mbramvax.jpg
Pie.
2006-05-14, 1:18 AM #2
That's hot.
2006-05-14, 1:22 AM #3
I want a size comparison shot.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2006-05-14, 1:30 AM #4
A PCI slot is probably smaller in length than just one of those 3 connectors, judging by contact size.
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2006-05-14, 1:54 AM #5
If you brought a modern 2 GB SD memory card back to the year 1984 and showed it to one of the VAX engineers, he would probably have a stroke.

Especially if you told him that they will be sold for $40 1984 dollars.
2006-05-14, 1:58 AM #6
Yeah. It's pretty crazy. But they got a lot smaller quite fast after that.
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2006-05-14, 2:16 AM #7
This is a Maeve from 1984

Where did it all go wrong?
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2006-05-14, 2:17 AM #8
Wrong thread? :p
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2006-05-14, 3:05 AM #9
:p

yeah, ignore the derail, I just couldn't resist
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2006-05-14, 5:13 AM #10
[http://update.opticaldynamics.com/~gbk/2c-a-byte.jpg]
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2006-05-14, 6:15 AM #11
Originally posted by gbk:
[http://update.opticaldynamics.com/~gbk/2c-a-byte.jpg]



Too bad you'd have to sell your house and get a new one to install it. :p :D
2006-05-14, 6:15 AM #12
Originally posted by maevie:
This is a Maeve from 1984

Where did it all go wrong?


I'd say the Coneing did you in
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2006-05-14, 6:33 AM #13
Originally posted by maevie:
This is a Maeve from 1984

Where did it all go wrong?


That pic looks even more 80's than the huge memory card...
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2006-05-14, 7:02 AM #14
Originally posted by lassev:
That pic looks even more 80's than the huge memory card...


CONED :o
2006-05-14, 10:01 AM #15
I'd like to flux those capacitors
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2006-05-14, 11:22 AM #16
Originally posted by mscbuck:
I'd like to flux those capacitors

Wait, are you taking about the RAM or maevie's photo? :o
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2006-05-14, 11:28 AM #17
I used to have a working IBM Big, which is what I am told it was called.

It was a hard drive about the size of a football. It had a scuzzy interface. I got it to work once, wrote a text file on it, and put it in storage in the basement. But I'm more than sure it got thrown out.
2006-05-14, 5:38 PM #18
It's actually an IBM Bigfoot drive. Not just Big. I used 4 of them as the corners in my hard drive poster.
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2006-05-14, 5:42 PM #19
I'm kinda made that it got thrown out. :(

It made the most awesome noises when I got it to work.
2006-05-14, 5:45 PM #20
Over 2 million dollars for a gigabyte of RAM?

SOLD
2006-05-15, 2:25 PM #21
Originally posted by Yecti:
It's actually a Quantum Bigfoot drive. Not just Big. I used 4 of them as the corners in my hard drive poster.
(fixed, as IBM never made the Bigfoot).

Yea, i had one of those in my first compuiter (AST piece of... well.. you get the idea). We had to get the 2GB Bigfoot, to complement the stock 3/4GB HDD that came with the thing :D .
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2006-05-15, 4:35 PM #22
the first computer that i remember haveing was a good old amiga.

twas also the first computer that was exclusively mine. (as we still had it when my parents had bought their PCs.)
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2006-05-15, 5:43 PM #23
I think the size difference is exaggerated by all the wasted space caused by using hundreds of DIP packages. The size of the resistors and capacitors is also hilarious.

Originally posted by Jon`C:
Over 2 million dollars for a gigabyte of RAM?

SOLD


Unfortunately, the size of the board required to mount this would probably cause latency issues, even at period-correct clockspeeds. Also, you'd need to find somewhere to put it all.
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2006-05-15, 6:14 PM #24
Indeed.
2006-05-16, 6:27 AM #25
Originally posted by Naythn:
...stuff...



Hi, my name is Nathyn, and I attend RIT. Unlike MB, I'm the stereotypical type of RIT student. That will serve me well in life, until I decide that I don't like computers, physics, math anymore. At that point, I'll become a statistic. >.> <.< :p
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2006-05-16, 12:14 PM #26
Were the 80s much fun?
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2006-05-16, 3:07 PM #27
Originally posted by Echoman:
Were the 80s much fun?


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2006-05-16, 3:10 PM #28
Originally posted by Yecti:
Hi, my name is Nathyn, and I attend RIT. Unlike MB, I'm the stereotypical type of RIT student. That will serve me well in life, until I decide that I don't like computers, physics, math anymore. At that point, I'll become a statistic. >.> <.< :p

:eek: Is Nathyn a suicide risk? We should help him.
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2006-05-16, 3:55 PM #29
Originally posted by Yecti:
Hi, my name is Nathyn, and I attend RIT. Unlike MB, I'm the stereotypical type of RIT student. That will serve me well in life, until I decide that I don't like computers, physics, math anymore. At that point, I'll become a statistic. >.> <.< :p


You forgot money.

That reminds me, only 3 weeks until my Co-op starts!
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2006-05-16, 5:19 PM #30
Originally posted by Naythn:
You forgot money.

He doesn't like the realization that those with better educations than him will be making significantly more amounts of money than him, have better job security, have hotter girlfriends and won't be living in shoddy apartments the rest of their lives.
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