Sandisk 128gb microSDXC Memory Card
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Personal Computing
Technology never ceases to amaze me.................
http://www.sandisk.com/about-sandisk/press-room/press-releases/2014/sandisk-introduces-worlds-highest-capacity-microsdxc-memory-card-at-128gb/
It seems like only yesterday that I thought I was the 'dogs bollocks' with a hard drive of 40gb on a Win98SE machine 
Reply #2 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 5:57 AM
oh, poor liitle jafo, I remeber thinking that I had a HUGE 720kbyte per disc storage on my trs80 model 1 (the official capacity at the time for floppies was 80kb (35 tracks single sided single density and my drives were 84 track doublesided double density) with three of the drives I could store a WHOPPING 2.1 MB of files.
harpo
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:38 AM
The $200 MSRP price tag is a bit much... I might pick one up when they get considerably cheaper though for my Sanza Clip. I currently have a 32GB Micro SD card to complement it's 4GB internal storage. Haven't quite filled the 36 GB with .mp3's yet, but I am getting close...
Reply #4 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7:04 AM
harpo
OK...my dad's bigger than your dad....
I think the first computer I messed with didn't have a HD or disk of any sort at all.....just a bunch of cards with holes in 'em....
Reply #6 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:17 AM
I remember sitting at a terminal and inputting data to a mainframe and your only feedback was a printout of your processed data on your workstation as it was processed, and yep, punch cards about the same time for me too. 
Reply #7 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:36 PM
My wife worked as a keypunch operator at a bank in the late 60's, converting individual checks to punch cards to feed the IBM beast.
Those were the days.
Reply #8 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:52 PM
jafo, I think I might STILL have some punchcards lying around that my brother used in his uni course, BUT when I purchased my model 1 it only had cassette tape storage, and I eventually upgraded it to the megabyte floppy beast, and even used it for graphical document design (now called desktop publishing) and this was BEFORE the lisa when the electric typewriter was THE document creation tool
harpo
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 1:41 AM
If you think 128 GB is big, check this out...
http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-256GB-Memory-LSD256CTBNA600/dp/B0090BEWKY
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:15 AM
If you think 128 GB is big, check this out...
http://www.amazon.com/Lexar-Professional-256GB-Memory-LSD256CTBNA600/dp/B0090BEWKY[/quote]
Well that's nothing compared to the 1TB micro SD card I'm gonna put in my tablet....
.... the fact that I'm still waiting for somebody to manufacture one don't mean it ain't gonna happen. 
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:04 AM
Hehe, yes the Univac 1005 with its key punch cards was my first. Damn ye're getting old.
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:30 AM
Dang... pretty soon we won't even needs hard drives if they keep this up. My solid state drives are only 160GB so I wonder when bootable SD cards at 256GB will enter into the PC market. No HDD's, just plug in your SD card to the front of the PC and turn it on, take it with you for security purposes, or lock it away! Would be some nice features for sure! 
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:42 AM
At least Oz managed to keep this one....
It's the only Gen 1 computer [intact] on the planet....
Reply #14 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:21 AM
Dang... pretty soon we won't even needs hard drives if they keep this up. My solid state drives are only 160GB so I wonder when bootable SD cards at 256GB will enter into the PC market. No HDD's, just plug in your SD card to the front of the PC and turn it on, take it with you for security purposes, or lock it away! Would be some nice features for sure!
Actually, Tom, though I'm not too sure about 256gb, haven't seen one as yet, but I did see that one of our retailers had 128gb SD cards in stock which were bootable... was in one of our major electrical stores 'junk mail', as I recall. The thing is, technology keeps advancing and cramming more into less. It wasn't that long ago it was unheard of that SSDs could reach 1TB, but Samsung and others have produced them. The same with SD cards and Micro SD cards. A short while ago the largest one could buy was 2gb, 4gb and 8gb... then suddenly 16gb, 32gb and 64gb became the standard.
It's the only Gen 1 computer [intact] on the planet...
Not too sure if it's the same one [model-wise, that is] but Aunty [the ABC for those not familiar with the term] did a story a few years ago about a computer that looked much like the one pictured... was very interesting indeed. Although it was government owned at the time, various hospitals and universities had access to it for medical and other research.
Reply #15 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:33 PM
It's 'CSIRAC'....amongst other things it was the first computer ever to 'say something'....no, not words....just emit a generated sound.....other than the pinking of hot valves...
Last I saw it was at the Melbourne Museum...[I assume it's there permanently]....and outside [it's enclosed] was an IBM XT PC ...exactly like what I once had....[kinda wish I'd kept it...since the Museum had one]...
Reply #17 Monday, April 7, 2014 8:07 PM
And now this..........WTF????...........128gb of RAM......yep RAM
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247500/Hynix_reveals_world_s_first_128GB_DDR4_memory_module
Reply #18 Monday, April 7, 2014 8:19 PM
And now this..........WTF????...........128gb of RAM......yep RAM
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247500/Hynix_reveals_world_s_first_128GB_DDR4_memory_module
Just don't get the one the idiot is holding up in his greasy fingers...
Reply #19 Monday, April 7, 2014 8:27 PM
Quoting Leo the Lion, reply 17 And now this..........WTF????...........128gb of RAM......yep RAMhttp://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247500/Hynix_reveals_world_s_first_128GB_DDR4_memory_module
Just don't get the one the idiot is holding up in his greasy fingers...
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 25, 2014 4:35 AM
Or 40meg on an XT and Dos....