Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re:SD cards in M8
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sun Mar 18 08:57:50 2007
References: <C221D8F2.8E23%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> <E19B8519-366F-47DA-BDB8-4E4DAB3E180A@ciudad.com.ar> <00fc01c768ca$eaebe880$48cb6743@MacPhisto> <004f01c768e2$4b996470$1eac28d1@fumcratr6dmly7> <A9B5783B-6B49-4A1B-BEDD-F9C5F0A256AF@mac.com> <110760C5-47F7-4F69-9010-A6AB0359BB1C@btinternet.com>

My first "real" computer was a DEC PDP-11/23. It had 64K(!) of RAM and
a huge, I say HUGE, as in VAST 5 MB hard drive. Of course the entire
operating system footprint was 4 KB, 8 KB if I elected to use the
non-overlayed version. Later we had the PDP-11/70 on a chip (the J11 I
think it was called) and it address 4MB of RAM that cost at least $4k.

Today even small drivers take 4k and just the space lost in formatting
a typical hard drive totals more than the entire disk capacity I owned
in the first 10, no make it 15, years of computing.

I wish I had kept the VAXstation I had which was a wonderful machine
with a rock-solid OS (VAX/VMS). Ah well . . . the good ol' days.

Adam

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