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[atec 7 7]

Mr.T wrote:

"atec 7 7" <"atec 77 "@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I expect the "solid state" hard drive will become increasingly
affordable and very popular
Agreed, but now put a time frame on 25GB sticks dropping to $1?
Before blu-ray disks get there?
they wont but I expect the organis drives to do so VERY quickly
I doubt it!
And I won't hold my breathe for 1TB solid state drives to be cheaper
than
magnetic Hard drives either. All will get bigger and cheaper for some
time
before magnetic and optical media dies out completely IMO.
But you're still welcome to make your own choices in the mean time
and yet again this arvo I bought another usb/1t drive for transporting
some movies

And inside was a standard magnetic hard disk drive I bet.
wrong . size wise not possible

NOT a solid state

hard drive you claim "will become increasingly popular".
So how exactly does that contradict what I said?
did I say that ?

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com> wrote in message
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I expect the "solid state" hard drive will become increasingly
affordable and very popular

Agreed, but now put a time frame on 25GB sticks dropping to $1?

10 years?

I'm betting maybe a little sooner than that, but still a HELL of a lot
longer than for Blu-ray disks and hard drive space to hit that mark.

MrT.

 

[Mr.T]

"atec 7 7" <"atec 77 "@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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and yet again this arvo I bought another usb/1t drive for transporting
some movies

And inside was a standard magnetic hard disk drive I bet.

wrong . size wise not possible

Wow, you really think you have a 1TB solid state drive? How much did it
cost?

Or does "usb/1t" just mean something else, since it is an unclear, non
standard abbreviation.

Maybe you just mean a 1GB USB stick and your whole argument is specious?

MrT.

 

[atec 7 7]

Mr.T wrote:

"atec 7 7" <"atec 77 "@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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and yet again this arvo I bought another usb/1t drive for transporting
some movies
And inside was a standard magnetic hard disk drive I bet.
wrong . size wise not possible

Wow, you really think you have a 1TB solid state drive? How much did it
cost?

Or does "usb/1t" just mean something else,
yes

since it is an unclear, non

standard abbreviation.
it is in my world

Maybe you just mean a 1GB USB stick and your whole argument is specious?
maybe your a goose ?

is your middle name woddles ?

MrT.

 

[Alan Rutlidge]

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And I won't hold my breathe for 1TB solid state drives to be cheaper
than
magnetic Hard drives either. All will get bigger and cheaper for some
time
before magnetic and optical media dies out completely IMO.
But you're still welcome to make your own choices in the mean time
Flash/USB drives won't drop below a particular retail price level (eg:
$9.95), but over time you will just get more and more GB for that
price level, and proportionally more at higher price levels (say $30,
$50 $100 $200 etc.).
Magnetic hard drives now start at about 80G minimum typically, at
about $50 or so new. External ones are a bit more, and more still if
you want laptop external ones.
They are by far the cheapest form of media currently on the market (in
the really large sizes)
I doubt that there is currently a USB / flash drive of that size
available retail, and would hate to see the price tag if there
was . biggest I could find in a quick search is 16 GB USB for
$50 or $75 for 16GB CF which is cheaper than I thought it would be.

-----------------------------------

64 GB USB and SD cards are available *IF* you really want to pay that
much.
But as I said, as flash media falls in price/increases in capacity, so
too
will magnetic hard drives and optical disks.
It will be a while yet before they become cheaper per GB. In the
meantime
they serve different purposes and all types still sell well.

MrT.

And to think in 1992 when I bought my first Acer 486 computer for nearly
$4,000 it was an SX33 with a huge 160MB HD (that died nearly straight
away and was upgraded to 210MB) , extra 1MB of RAM to bring it up to 2MB
and a 2x CD drive that held data discs of a massive 640MB!!!! 3 times the
HD size. Ahhhh... them were the days ;-) And the processor speed was so
poor that it had trouble playing Doom and using the chain gun! And I
used to walk 20 miles to school in the ice and snow, "lived in shoe box
in middle of road" and ....etc, etc ) )

Cheers TT


Don't forget that the walk to and from school was uphill, BOTH ways!!!!
Yes, and it was back in the days before electricity too - LOL

 

[Ross Vumbaca]

Hi,

TT wrote:

And to think in 1992 when I bought my first Acer 486
computer for nearly $4,000 it was an SX33 with a huge 160MB
HD (that died nearly straight away and was upgraded to
210MB) , extra 1MB of RAM to bring it up to 2MB and a 2x CD
drive that held data discs of a massive 640MB!!!! 3 times
the HD size. Ahhhh... them were the days ;-) And the
processor speed was so poor that it had trouble playing Doom
and using the chain gun! And I used to walk 20 miles to
school in the ice and snow, "lived in shoe box in middle of
road" and ....etc, etc ) )

Ewww a PC in 1992. There was a time when a computer's performance and
usability didn't come down to how fast your processor was, or how big
the hard disk. My PC friends were always envious of my Amiga, now those
were the days ;-).

Regards,

Ross..

 

[Alan Rutlidge]

"Ross Vumbaca" <rossv1@au.com.optushome> wrote in message
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Hi,

TT wrote:

And to think in 1992 when I bought my first Acer 486 computer for nearly
$4,000 it was an SX33 with a huge 160MB HD (that died nearly straight
away and was upgraded to 210MB) , extra 1MB of RAM to bring it up to 2MB
and a 2x CD drive that held data discs of a massive 640MB!!!! 3 times the
HD size. Ahhhh... them were the days ;-) And the processor speed was so
poor that it had trouble playing Doom and using the chain gun! And I
used to walk 20 miles to school in the ice and snow, "lived in shoe box
in middle of road" and ....etc, etc ) )

Ewww a PC in 1992. There was a time when a computer's performance and
usability didn't come down to how fast your processor was, or how big the
hard disk. My PC friends were always envious of my Amiga, now those were
the days ;-).

Regards,

Ross..

I've still got an Amiga 2000. Equipped with a 68010 processor, fatter Agnus
chip, GVP SCSI controller and RAM board equipped with 3 Meg of RAM (yep you
read that right), Quantum 100MB HDD with both Kickstart V1.2 and 1.3 chips.
Modified with a couple of switches to switch between the two Kickstart ROMs
and also to disable the HDD detection as some older floppy based games
didn't run if the HDD was detected at boot-up. All running into an NEC
Multisync II monitor with external amp and speakers. In its day it was a
kick-arse machine, leaving the PC platform in the dust.

 

[Mr.T]

"Alan Rutlidge" <don't_spam_me_rutlidge@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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I've still got an Amiga 2000. Equipped with a 68010 processor, fatter
Agnus
chip, GVP SCSI controller and RAM board equipped with 3 Meg of RAM (yep
you
read that right), Quantum 100MB HDD with both Kickstart V1.2 and 1.3
chips.
Modified with a couple of switches to switch between the two Kickstart
ROMs
and also to disable the HDD detection as some older floppy based games
didn't run if the HDD was detected at boot-up. All running into an NEC
Multisync II monitor with external amp and speakers. In its day it was a
kick-arse machine, leaving the PC platform in the dust.

And that day has LOOOONG since passed. Some people also thought the MicroBee
was a kick ass machine in it's day, but not for long

MrT.

 

[Alan Rutlidge]

"Mr.T" <MrT@home> wrote in message
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"Alan Rutlidge" <don't_spam_me_rutlidge@iinet.net.au> wrote in message
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I've still got an Amiga 2000. Equipped with a 68010 processor, fatter
Agnus
chip, GVP SCSI controller and RAM board equipped with 3 Meg of RAM (yep
you
read that right), Quantum 100MB HDD with both Kickstart V1.2 and 1.3
chips.
Modified with a couple of switches to switch between the two Kickstart
ROMs
and also to disable the HDD detection as some older floppy based games
didn't run if the HDD was detected at boot-up. All running into an NEC
Multisync II monitor with external amp and speakers. In its day it was a
kick-arse machine, leaving the PC platform in the dust.

And that day has LOOOONG since passed. Some people also thought the
MicroBee
was a kick ass machine in it's day, but not for long

MrT.

Too true Mr.T, but we are talking a bloody long time ago.
I remember the days before pocket calculators, when you had to work things
out either in your head or on paper using tables and a slide rule.

 

[Ross Vumbaca]

Hi,

Alan Rutlidge wrote:

I've still got an Amiga 2000. Equipped with a 68010 processor, fatter Agnus
chip, GVP SCSI controller and RAM board equipped with 3 Meg of RAM (yep you
read that right), Quantum 100MB HDD with both Kickstart V1.2 and 1.3 chips.
Modified with a couple of switches to switch between the two Kickstart ROMs
and also to disable the HDD detection as some older floppy based games
didn't run if the HDD was detected at boot-up. All running into an NEC
Multisync II monitor with external amp and speakers. In its day it was a
kick-arse machine, leaving the PC platform in the dust.

Nice to see that some people still remember and even own Amigas . I
only had a lowly stock A500 mysef, but I later acquired most of the
range (i.e when people didn't want them anymore) in an attempt to keep
using them and to contribute to the new "OS4".. Computers just aren't
fun anymore.. :-\

Regards,

Ross..

 

[David Shorter]

Alan Rutlidge wrote:

Too true Mr.T, but we are talking a bloody long time ago.
I remember the days before pocket calculators, when you had to work things
out either in your head or on paper using tables and a slide rule.

Have you heard the one about the constipated mathematician. He worked it
out with a pencil. :-(

--
Regards,

David Shorter

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