How much!!?

[DIW35]

Quiet day at work this morning, so started rooting through the drawers, and found a Jessop's catalogue. Hmmm, I thought, lets see what I can treat myself to next. It's only when I spotted a 4GB Sandisk Extreme III CF card for £399.99, that I twigged the catalogue might be a bit out of date.

Is that how much CF cards were 3 or 4 years ago? Bl00dy hell!

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

When Helen got me a Nikon 880 a few years ago I splashed out on a 64MB card that was cheep at £110. It still works. I can't quite fit 3 pictures from the 1DS3 on it

[Simpo Two]

In spring 2004 a 1Gb Lexar Pro 40x card retailed at Jessops for about £250.

[GetCarter]

...and I was buying blank CDRs in circa 1992 for £30 per pop

[Simpo Two]

Talking of 1992, my PC had the extra 1 Mb of RAM required to run Windows - it was £100 extra.

At £100 per Mb that makes my current 500GB HD worth half a million pounds.




I'll take £450K

[Zad]

GetCarter said:

...and I was buying blank CDRs in circa 1992 for £30 per pop

They were quite cheap. The Panasonic optical disks we had when I was studenting around 1990 were £120!

[Lotus Elan +2]

Well............................................
I remember going to the Commodore shows at Earls Court in the late 80's and we were chuffed to find 3.5" floppies ( 1.44mb ) at £1 each !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( I know technically this should be in the computers and stuff section ! )

Edited by Lotus Elan +2 on Saturday 16th August 00:40

[fastfreddy]

I see your pricey flash cards and raise you a DEC PDP-11 from the late '70's.

This little beauty (to the right of the printer) had 3.3MHz Processor and 4MB of memory.



A 32KB Core Memory board for one of these babies was a cool $3000

[Fetchez la vache]

No exciting photography prices, as I haven't been doing it for that long, but if you want to talk computers, the computer dept at Plymouth Poly had their first 1k of memory back in 19 blah blah... It arrived on the back of a lorry and was £25,000. 1k!

[Elderly]

Going further Off Topic but excusing myself because this is a (fast) car forum;
I have a Pegaso brochure from 1953 where one model has a price tag of £10,600

[tangerine_sedge]

fastfreddy said:

I see your pricey flash cards and raise you a DEC PDP-11 from the late '70's.

This little beauty (to the right of the printer) had 3.3MHz Processor and 4MB of memory.



A 32KB Core Memory board for one of these babies was a cool $3000

Ahem, that's a teleprinter, i.e. it's got a keyboard. You could use it as a terminal, thus getting a print out of every command/response. Takes me back