8GB usb drive $80

[WWJD]

I was about to buy a 4 gigger, then this 8GB jumped out at me. Yeah, yeah, I know they will be $6.99 next week, but I'm heading out of town and needed some fast RAM.

Officemax, of all places had a deal: $79 8GB Flash drive and fits in my watch pocket. 2 DVDs in size. Now I can pack all my games, tons of music, and even a movie or three

if anyone cares about this kinda thing

http://www.officemax.com/max....1579069

 

[justin726]

That's a pretty good price for a retail store.

If you could have waited a couple days for shipping, you could have got an 8g off of ebay for $60.

I'll need to pick me up one when the price drops a bit.

 

[WWJD]

oooh! Newgg.com has 16GB [same physical size] for $132! stuff gettin crazy

 

[justin726]

I think that's about the size of the hard drive on my first computer.

 

[Turbo-Torch]

(justin726 @ Aug. 30 2007,13:48) I think that's about the size of the hard drive on my first computer.  

Hard drives didn't even exist when I got started.

My first computer (TRS-80 model III) used a cassette deck to store programs and had 16K of ram.
16K upgrade kits were $200 each. It cost $400 to hit its max of 48K not including installation.
The 5 1/4" floppy disk drive option added $1000 to the price and offered 134K of storage space.
A 5 meg hard drive was eventually released. Housed in an external case it was close to the size of a cinder block and weighed over 10 lbs. Price tag was $5,000.00.
Needless to say my Trash 80 stayed barebones for quite a while.

Around '83 I started hacking it and doing major upgrades. First was getting online with Compuserve. $12 per hour at 300 baud. I used it no more than 2 hours a month as I had to mow 2 lawns for each hour I spent online.
Eventually I figured out the telnet phone number offered access to not only Compuserve but computers all over the world. A NASA switch packing station was my most impressive score followed by the local electric company.

The first hard drive I ever bought was was for my Tandy 1000SL. It was a monster at 32 meg using RLL encoding verses the older MFM. It was close to $400 bucks.

I still have my old Model III and used it every so often for fun up until a few months ago when the power supply caught on fire. After 26 years something had to fail. She'll live again though.

I bet most people today can't fathom the difference between K, meg and gig or how ground breaking it was when PCs hit 8 mhz over the old 4.77 mhz models.

 

[dadofthree]

Nice storage device, maybe a jacket pocket or under the hump

 

[Spike]

Those are nice. I keep an 8GB in the hump just in case. LOVE that price. I may have to grab another.

 

[heavybusa]

I use my 30 gig Ipod for a hard drive.

 

[frisbee]

Ipod music and storage ? Can it hald any type of file . I have a 20 gig iriver player that will .

 

[heavybusa]

yeah, you just have to cancel the Itunes auto launch or use a pc that doesnt have Itunes loaded on it.

Then open the ipod from the control panel, it acts as a storage device.

 

[WWJD]

always feared the pod. too expensive for me to accidently drop or break or loose.

isn't the 30 gig drive a moving part also subject to jarring and shock?

 

[heavybusa]

Yes, but I figure after it has survived running and riding it should be fine

 

[spkerhed]

a buddy of mine owns a computer shop and he just orderd a 1 tera byte hard drive for a costomer. that is a lot of storage

 

[Jester0769]

I remember the days of not even having a hard drive in the computer, boot off of 1 5.25 true floppy (back when they were really floppy) and then work off the other floppy.

My first computer with any real computing power have a 30 meg hard drive and a 15 vga screen was the pimpness.

Then I got a cd rom and was promoted to king pimp of the block.

Life is moving to fast thats for sure and were all speeding to hell. Gota love it!

 

[omslaw]

(Turbo-Torch @ Aug. 30 2007,17:31)

(justin726 @ Aug. 30 2007,13:48) I think that's about the size of the hard drive on my first computer.  

Hard drives didn't even exist when I got started.

My first computer (TRS-80 model III) used a cassette deck to store programs and had 16K of ram.
16K upgrade kits were $200 each.  It cost $400 to hit its max of 48K not including installation.
The 5 1/4" floppy disk drive option added $1000 to the price and offered 134K of storage space.
A 5 meg hard drive was eventually released.  Housed in an external case it was close to the size of a cinder block and weighed over 10 lbs.  Price tag was $5,000.00.
Needless to say my Trash 80 stayed barebones for quite a while.

Around '83 I started hacking it and doing major upgrades.  First was getting online with Compuserve.  $12 per hour at 300 baud.  I used it no more than 2 hours a month as I had to mow 2 lawns for each hour I spent online.
Eventually I figured out the telnet phone number offered access to not only Compuserve but computers all over the world.  A NASA switch packing station was my most impressive score followed by the local electric company.

The first hard drive I ever bought was was for my Tandy 1000SL.  It was a monster at 32 meg using RLL encoding verses the older MFM.  It was close to $400 bucks.  

I still have my old Model III and used it every so often for fun up until a few months ago when the power supply caught on fire.  After 26 years something had to fail.  She'll live again though.

I bet most people today can't fathom the difference between K, meg and gig or how ground breaking it was when PCs hit 8 mhz over the old 4.77 mhz models.

Ahhh - the good ole days!

Taught myself to program on a Commodore VIC-20, then moved up to the Commodore 64! Woohoo. Managed to get TWO 5.25" floppy drives so I could copy games!

Ran a BBS from my house in the evenings; 300 baud, baby!

Then up to IBM PC - with the MFM and RLL drives!

Taught myself computers and networking - now I'm responsible for the Global network/IT infrastructure for my company... How times change...

 

[omslaw]

(Jester0769 @ Aug. 30 2007,23:05) I remember the days of not even having a hard drive in the computer, boot off of 1 5.25 true floppy (back when they were really floppy) and then work off the other floppy.

My first computer with any real computing power have a 30 meg hard drive and a 15 vga screen was the pimpness.

Then I got a cd rom and was promoted to king pimp of the block.

Life is moving to fast thats for sure and were all speeding to hell. Gota love it!

I still have some 8" floppy disks around...

Also have my original, SINGLE-Speed CD-ROM drive. Paid almost $500 bux for that thing!

 

[frisbee]

(WWJD @ Aug. 30 2007,18:55) always feared the pod.  too expensive for me to accidently drop or break or loose.

isn't the 30 gig drive a moving part also subject to jarring and shock?

I can't have mine on the bike I have to carry it on me or the vibrations get to it .

 

[smonroe86]

i got my 8gig but for free of course from our supply..... but i know someone that is selling them for $40 a piece lol plus it is the best of all kingston

 

[Rhythm]

(smonroe86 @ Aug. 31 2007,01:44) i got my 8gig but for free of course from our supply.....  but i know someone that is selling them for $40 a piece lol plus it is the best of all kingston

How much are you charging for shipping

LOL

 

[smonroe86]

let find me talk to him and ask if he has ever mail any home cause you know our mail system is a little different here, i got mission tonight so i will talk to him tomorrow