On 12/5/2014 6:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2014 11:03:36 andy pugh did opine > And Gene did reply: >> On 4 December 2014 at 11:33, Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> I went back out to the cabinets, counted slots and did a bit of >>> multiplication. I was staring at the gutted remains of a one terabyte >>> RAID array. The first 500 gigabyte hard drives had just been >>> introduced. Amazing to think that for a street price of around $1K a >>> person could hold in one hand the same amount of data that only a >>> few years before required that multi-ton, several million $ >>> multi-kilowatt sucking behemoth - and that pair of drives would be >>> far more reliable. >> The comparison that boggles me is the 16GB thumb-drive and the 16k RAM >> Pack for the ZX81. >> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/ZX81_Sinclair_Research_ad >> vert.jpg It's the thing stuck on the back. >> >> Not just the volume of Sinclair RAM packs that would be needed to hold >> 1,000,000 of them, but the power consumption. It consumed 100mA. >> So, 50mW per pack = 500kW for the 16GB thumb drive. > Chuckle, as usual Andy, you place the state of our art in its proper > perspective. I am reminded of Art Clarks statement about technology vs > magic. To the ZX-81 owner, that is indeed magic, black even. ;-) > > I had one of those with the 16k ram pack, in about 1979. My kids wiped > out the chomerics keyboard in about a week. So it wound up in a slope > topped steel box with what may have been a TI-99 keyboard cut into the top > of the box. 99.9% empty space in the box, but the kids were happy and > still remember it today. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
I still have a Sinclair computer. I gave it to my parents a long time ago and when they were digging around, they found it, and gave it back to me! It has joined my Mac 512K, Toshiba T5100, and my Compaq 8086 big lunch box style portable computer (with orange screen!) on the antique tech shelf. Dave --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
