Thanks for the memory

Have been searching for something suitable for backing-up my photos while in India, and today I decided that a couple of 16GB memory sticks would do the job. Just over 1,000 baht each (which gives an exchange rate of approximately 45GB per toilet seat).

I am reminded of “the old days” when memory cost more and took up a whole load more space. Here’s a 16GB memory stick next to a thirty year old Atari 800 16k memory module from the second computer I ever owned (and cannot bring myself to dispose of).

A hundred thousand times A million times Much more storage packed into something even smaller than my genitals. Genius.

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2009-08-14 | Lloyd says

For not much more money you could have picked yourself up a micro external HD with 120Gb 3.5" Flash drive, not quite as compact tho.

2009-08-14 | Spike says

True; but it would probably have needed a separate power supply, and this is an easy carry solution.

2009-08-15 | Wentworth says

I stumbled on to this today. Same Same but different.

http://www.techrivet.com/2007/10/02/19811GBIBMHardDriveVs1gbSmartCardCirca2007.aspx

2009-08-15 | Spike says

Certainly a more striking example.