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CruisinJo214 t1_j9eywo2 wrote

Not sure this generation remembers paying $100 for a 256mb hard drive….

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Cumupin420 t1_j9eyxdc wrote

It's all relative, I never thought it was painful to pay 250 for a 512kb drive. I was the biggest swinging dick with that drive, didn't have to uninstall any game ever.

Point is the new 100 dollar drive is the 1tb and that's bigger than you need right now just like the 512kb was bigger than I needed. No pain just progress, you pay to be on the cutting edge and those that do are happy to. I never once bitched about buying new tech

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lokoston t1_j9ez514 wrote

I bet you were never as happy as a clam like I was when I bought a hard drive for my PC. It was "only" $500 and it had a whooping storage of 500Mb. I think we're talking late 80s or early 90s.

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LuxInteriot t1_j9f3ncj wrote

IBM 1301 was the size of a large cabinet, had 80MB storage and costed U$ 115 k. It was launched in 1961. I've never came close to something like that in my life, but it's no mystery to me - storage was pricey and minimal. I think it's the other way around - think of a computer technician from the 60s being thawed from a cryogenic chamber and hearing about storage sizes and bit transfer rate these days.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9f45p2 wrote

Replying to LuxInteriot (#1,899,968)

Oh for sure. I've seen old computers that took up entire rooms and had less power than our phones today. I just remember needing a flash drive for university and having to spend $100 just to get a reasonable amount of storage. This was only 12 years ago but it didn't take long for flash storage to get mostly phased out of everyday use.

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mansnothot69420 t1_j9f5tqs wrote

The newer generations will never understand the pain of paying $100 for a 1TB NVME SSD

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Mixt-meta4z-1463 t1_j9f5u86 wrote

A roommate I had in the Navy in the early '90s paid $1000 for a 1GB SCSI hard drive. Never mind the price of the controller card and cable.

I thought my 80286/12Mhz/4Meg with a 44Mb hard drive was the bomb. Don't forget the 9600 baud USRobotics modem! (All before Al Gore invented the interwebs)

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ocelot-gazebo t1_j9f81i8 wrote

My "best" was a 64MB thumb drive disguised as a Swiss army knife. $98.

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landwomble t1_j9fbwpi wrote

I remember the first thumbdrive we ever got at work. Around £400 for 120mb. That's MB, not GB.

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nihilt-jiltquist t1_j9fgwlc wrote

try paying $100 for 100Mb zip drive back in the previous century...

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NJtoNM t1_j9fj38n wrote

On my first work PC, I upgraded to a 70MB HDD. It was $700 to get that larger drive.

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GenXer1977 t1_j9fkwt1 wrote

Replying to CruisinJo214 (#1,899,414)

Yeah, when I got my first digital camera I think 256 was either the biggest storage available or the biggest storage I could afford. I had 3 or 4 of those and then I got a 512. I think that was the biggest I had before I just switched to using the camera on my phone.

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Moghovich t1_j9ftf56 wrote

In 2000 we bought a digital camera instead of hiring a photographer for our wedding. It came with an 8MB compact flash card, which obviously wasn't enough -- so we splurged and bought a 64MB compact flash card for $350 or so.

I just bought a 128GB SD card for $28...

Edit: $350 in 2000 dollars is about $575 now

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riggrip t1_j9ggf70 wrote

We got played homie. How many have woken up since then? None. Idiots pay double for a PS5 for years. Nothing new here.

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Cumupin420 t1_j9gn8vc wrote

Replying to prettypistolgg (#1,901,535)

I use them daily at work. I have 6 images mounted that I use daily and use them to transfer data in a pinch. Without flash drives my daily life at work would suck. Consumers don't really have a use for thumb drives but every device you have has flash memory in it.

I'm in IT and they are used all the time. They have m.3 flash drives even. That's what I use and they are not cheap. Lots of tech stuff need them, it's how you load shit

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barely_engineered t1_j9guodm wrote

My first hard drive was 20MB. It was an external drive the same footprint as the PC, so we kept the PC on top of it. It weighed 8lbs and the list price was $1300.

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ndasilva1981 t1_j9guqug wrote

And to think I just paid $6 CDN after taxes for a Kingston 64GB USB flash drive... wow.

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Aanttonyy t1_j9hlvcu wrote

Sure. If you don't account for the growth of programs. I don't know any stats on this but a COD game that is roughly ~130GB is 13% of a 1TB that is roughly $100. I feel like the bang for your buck is there but newer generations get bigger numbers for their dollars?

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tacticalpotatopeeler t1_j9hnlqc wrote

I paid $65 for my first thumb drive: 128 mb.

That’s megabytes, not gigabytes…

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RonSwansonsOldMan t1_j9hpjlv wrote

When CD player/recorders first came out. my ex-BIL bought one and paid 20 thousand dollars for it.

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TSIDAFOE t1_j9hzaee wrote

"Everyone needs a flash drive for this class. If you're paying more than $1/GB for a flashdrive, you're getting ripped off"

My tech-ed teacher, circa 2012. Crazy how far technology has come in just ten years.

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convalytics t1_j9i2r58 wrote

These new generations will never remember paying $100 for 8MB of RAM.

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divinecomics t1_j9i3duj wrote

Or you could buy ~700 3.5 floppy disks around 1995 for $2-3 a piece

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KingOfTheHlll t1_j9ibcoi wrote

I remember when I bought my 512 mb sd card for my phone it was like $15 now that’s what it cost a 32gb one

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dsonyx t1_j9ifwhd wrote

I remember needing a flash drive for college. I went to a Compusa that was 45 minutes away. It was the closest computer store to me. I paid $125 for a 512mb PNY flash drive. I still have it as a memento.

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PdxPhoenixActual t1_j9iimk6 wrote

Replying to Moghovich (#1,902,678)

I paid 500$ for a Kodak dc25.... 14 wee little postage stamp size pictures... & got an 8mb (at like 80$?) cf card that added 15 more. Remember having to be very picky about what pics I wanted to take when out & about...

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FaceTheSun t1_j9ik4ia wrote

lol....the first time I bought RAM to upgrade my PC it cost $50.00/MB....so 1 GB would be $50,000.00.

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Moghovich t1_j9jg9a5 wrote

Replying to PdxPhoenixActual (#1,913,935)

Ours was a few years later, I surfed through Kodak's lineup and I think we had a DC240. Its form factor is similar to the DC25, but it had a zoom lens and of course better resolution.

Reading through this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DC_Series it sounds like your DC25 came out before JPEG was really accepted as a standard -- today it seems like JPEG was always there. Wild.

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prettypistolgg OP t1_j9jkmkf wrote

Replying to Ringhoo (#1,917,443)

I looked it up and apparently CD preceded VHS and Betamax so I can see how someone who needed or wanted to record and store media files would dish out that kind of money, especially if it was for a business or something

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androidiqmen t1_j9k3ggl wrote

That was the real pain, I used to beg to my daddy for that and then he made me buy some things with it, still remember that time, what a time that was though.

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Regnes t1_j9lb06p wrote

No, it was pretty amazing at the time. Before flash drives, floppies were your standard option for rewritable storage. They held only 1.5 megs, so the jump was insane and so worth the price.

What stung was how just a few years later the technology had advanced so much that they became dollar store items.

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ntgroos t1_j9lkug4 wrote

That was a gold time though, I don't regret buying like that because now people can't fucking experience that, they are still not gonna get what we loved back then.

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FaceTheSun t1_j9llioy wrote

Replying to Dyak80 (#1,926,463)

It was in about 1987... the computer had only a few MB to begin with.

There was no such thing as USB at that time and a high capacity removable storage (floppy disc) had maybe 1.4 MB !

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So things are a bit different these days.

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Jackrabbitkeys t1_j9lq4zd wrote

I remember having to rewind my VHS tapes to watch my favorite movies. The struggle was real.

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cdloveless t1_j9m72t4 wrote

Some people are gonna say that this was easy or something, nah man, this buying like that expensive was never a normal thing, people should see our struggle lol.

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tudor2711 t1_j9m7jnv wrote

Man what have you made me remember lol, that was a tough time but yeah we have that experience and many people are gonna feel so nostalgic about this haha.

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dangmanhvn t1_j9mc4l0 wrote

We have paid so much back then and now people are never gonna understand the real pain most of the people have faced, that was the real deal for most of us.

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darkjhack t1_j9msvwy wrote

The new generation will never know the thrill of making a mixtape for someone and the hours it took to perfect it.

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divinecomics t1_j9sg5bm wrote

Replying to SotashiSan (#1,918,430)

That was when you really needed programs like Winzip and would split across multiple disks many times. I doubt many of these graphic artists for video games today have any clue about compression.

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