This is the first of several posts I’m going to start with, “I’ve been cleaning up the basement…”
So, I’ve been cleaning up the basement…
And look what a nice encapsulation I found of solid state memory density progression over the last 30 years!
Computer memory cartridges from 1983 to 2013.
I remember saving up for that VIC-20 8K cartridge in the very early 80s. With that thing plugged in, I tripled my RAM! Of course, longer programs meant longer load times; from cassette tape…
The 8MB Compact Flash card came with my first digital camera in 1998, a Nikon Coolpix 900. With a CCD resolution of 1280X960, I could almost create a full screen background for my Solaris 7 CDE desktop…
I’m still using the 8GB Eye-Fi card. I have one in each camera. Processor, static RAM, and network interface all in one tiny, host powered package. Not bad for early 21st. century…
Wouldn’t this make a nice start for an update to “Powers of Ten”? It could be called, “Multiples of 2^10”.
1983 – 8192
1998 – 8192*2^10
2013 – 8192*2^20
2028 – 8192*2^30? – Stay tuned!
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