On Sunday 07 December 2014 23:29:15 Dave Cole did opine And Gene did reply: > 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 >
Plainly you do not have enough hobbies if you have space for all that. :) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
