But I suspect we're not talking about the same thing.
Prolly not, though I must say that the 8" is completely obsolete. I had one of those when I was three.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
Posted on 12/23/2008 6:05:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Toshiba announced today the expansion of their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512 GB SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSD's based on 43 nanometer Multi-Level Cell NAND.
In addition to the 2.5-inch, 512GB drive, the 43nm NAND SSD family also includes capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, offered in 1.8-inch or 2.5-inch drive enclosures or as SSD Flash Modules.
These 2nd generation SSD's offer increased capacity and performance for notebook computers. They utilize an advanced MLC controller that achieves higher read/write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling to optimize performance, reliability and endurance.
These drives enable improved system responsiveness with a maximum sequential read speed of 240MBps and maximum sequential write speed of 200MBps. This faster response time enhances overall computing experience and allows for faster boot and application loading. The drives also offer AES data encryption to prevent unauthorized data access.
Toshiba as well as many market analysts expect SSD's to begin significant deployment in the market in 2009. With further growth, in the notebook market, expected around 10% by 2010 and 25% by 2012.
The new drives provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, gaming and home entertainment systems. These SSD's will be showcased at International CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 8 - 11, 2009. Mass production will begin in the second quarter of 2009 (April to June).
I still have one of those up in my attic somewhere.
came as a build it your self kit.
Heck yeah, back when we had IBM S/36, S/38, and the 1st generation of AS/400 (Silverlake). I also remember those really high speed, snappy 1/2" 9348 round-reel tape drives that ran at 2400bpi. Who would ever need more than 512mb of memory?
IBM 1620’s had ferrite core memory like that.
Ah, the pre viagra days. But, seriously, the portability of the 8" floppy was way awesome when it first came out.
Where you an ET?
CTM
Remember those tiny little 96 column punchcards with the little round holes?
4 huge boards got ya a whopping 64k!
In the early 1980's, I visited Digital Research as part of a team (engineering manager, marketing managoer, and me, the software guy) to investigate using CP/m (CP/m-86, IIRC) for a new PC product that we were developing.
Their offices were impressive (the 2nd floor conference room had an incredible panoramic view of Monterey Bay) and the people seemed, at least initially, quite friendly. I did pick up, though, on an air of superiority, bordering on arrogance, that permeated our discussion. It was as if they were doing us a huge favor by meeting with us. (We never saw Gary Kildall because, apparently, he had decided that it was more important to go sailing that day than to meet with a potential major customer.)
Long story short (I know, too late) - we ended up going with the computer manufacturer's OEM version of MS-DOS and the project failed spectacularly, as did D/R and the computer manufacturer some time afterwards.
OK.. you lost me after GB I must admit, ehehehe...
As I recall, the "Yuck"-20 was the fire control computer for the Tartar systems on Adams-class (and probably later) DDGs. (Hold your fire while I load up the computer from the paper tape reader.)
STS/SS
I bought mine in 1984 with the floppy disk. But you could be right about the 64K. It could be I was upgrading from 64K with the 256K card. It’s possible it was a 128K card. Things were a lot different in those days. In any case I eventually added a (I think) 10 MB HDD. I’m sure it is difficult for the youngsters to understand just how valuable that 10 MB was. It was revolutionary.
We have a winner! I started programming in 1967 at the Camp Pendleton PX on an IBM 360-20 using RPG and a big stack of cards for a compiler. We eventually got some 7-meg disk drives that used removeable disks the size of pizza pans and throught we could rule the world.
We shifted over to 8-inch floppys in the keypunch section which obsoleted our cases of 80-column cards overnight - we ended up giving them to the military guys.
I see where some USB flash drives are up to 64 gig and that leads me to wonder if people won't be carrying personal data in their pockets and leaving nothing on the hard drives. That's gonna play Hell with the authorities when they seize some guy's computer and when they boot up, see Nelson saying "Ha Ha!"
If this thread continues a few weeks we may fit in an obituary!
I do remember the card decks. We used them at the USCG Payroll and Personnel Center (PPC) in Topeka what seems like a hundred years ago.
Eventually, SSD’s will supplant the traditional HDD in virtually all applications.............
That seems likely, eventually - but it took a while for silicon RAM to replace the magnetic core memory, and flash memory is not the first challenger to the magnetic disk. Non-magnetic RAM did eventually prevail. But the rotating magnetic disk has not been a stationary target but a very dynamic one - such that I long ago dismissed the idea of being careful in my use of disk space. When you get to where you are tight on disk space the logical response is not to try to "clean out the closet" but to pay another $200 or so for a new, larger-capacity hard drive.That logic might eventually prevail even with SSDs - but even if you spring for an SSD now for your application (as I noted might be the correct decision for an application for which I bought a computer a couple of years ago), present-day prices would prevent me from considering that option of indiscriminately buying more than the minimum capacity needed for that application - at least, not until prices have dropped in half two or three times. So in general I don't see the hard disk disappearing for at least a decade.
Now that I remind myself how old that computer is, or soon will be, it wouldn't necessarily be out of the question to consider a CPU upgrade as well as a memory upgrade.
Prolly not, though I must say that the 8" is completely obsolete. I had one of those when I was three.
Amazing << Hear this. Feel this, and tell me that this isn't music.
But we had this cool Star Trek game which printed out on the minigun printer, with asterisks and slashes and dots. The writing was on the wall. You could shoot or move and wait for the minigun printer to show what you had wrought. It was the future. It was cool.
Basics of algorithmic processes, they called it. We had to write a banking program that let users deposit and withdraw and transfer between accounts. On cards. That was our big test. It worked.
The smarter ones went on to devise banking programs which took peoples' money and deposited it in derivatives and hedge funds, I suppose. I just liked that Star Trek game.
PS- I remember a PC salesman telling me that the new 486 computers would be for business and power users, and that it would be ridiculous to have this much power at home. I bought a 386SX. At least it booted up faster than today ;)
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