Funny for I.T. and Computer users in general

[Mako Koiwai]

DON'T scroll past the bottom of the photo ... guess what it is first!

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/storage.asp

btw. Love the Intel commercial with the "nerds" gushing over the co-USB inventors entrance ... and the final shot where they all do the signature Intel sound ditty.

[Rick Brown]

When I first started taking programming classes at Orange Coast College in the early 70's, the primary method of input was punched cards. After coding on paper, we punched the cards, submitted the deck and got the results the next day! This was on a "state-of-the-art" IBM 360. One computer for the whole school. The real cool stuff was the room with the APL (A Programming Language) terminals, IBM selectric typewriters connected to the system that you could type a program on and get instant results.

[Theo O.]

Reminds me of these famous quotes


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processings is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC

[Bob Beamesderfer]

The device shown in the linked photo didn't get physically smaller by much even 20 years later, although its function was improved.

[Sebastian Rios]

I just finished reading a book in which the main character was to go back in time to 1938 and disrupt "Dutch" Reagan's life enough so that he would not become president.
In one scene a 1984 scientist was attempting to repair the time machine and was astounded by the 22nd century technology that was "at least 4 gigabytes" of RAM in a package only 2"x4".

"An observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. He noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Moore predicted the trend would continue for the foreseeable future.

Although the pace has slowed, the number of transistors per square inch has since doubled approximately every 18 months. This is used as the current definition of Moore's Law.

Investopedia Says:
Most experts expect Moore's Law to hold for another two decades. Some studies have shown physical limitations could be reached by 2017."

[Bob Beamesderfer]

One of the "biggest" limitations when it comes to reducing the size of solid-state devices is the limitations presented by physical input/output ports.

I have a 1mb jump drive with a press kit on it; it is 1 x .5 x <.12 inches, including storage and USB contacts.

That is twice the storage of an IBM multi-platter disc pack, circa 1974, which was a removable storage device about 9 x 12 inches and weighing about 12 pounds. To access the data, it would be loaded into a drawer in a drive the width of two file cabinets, nearly as deep and tall, running on 440v balanced AC.

[KJ Christopher]

[Mako Koiwai]

[Bob Beamesderfer]

Posts the man who posted this on Facebook:

[KJ Christopher]

Posts the man who posted this on Facebook:

I've been outed!

They look pretty good, ready to go get a shiny coat of glaze. I can't wait to get this temporary bridge out of my mouth.

[Steve Ekstrand]

I have an 8gb microSD card in my Blackberry. I see now they have brand name 16gb microSD's for under $50.
Have you seen how small and thin these are? About the size, thickness, and weight of a trimmed finger nail. SIXTEEN GIG'S!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDSDQ-016 ... B001F6YRNO" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Mako Koiwai]

Fast small memory cards are part of the digital revolution in movie making. A 32 gig CF card holds about 16 minutes of very high definition digital motion capture. That card can be used over and over again. A 1,000' roll of motion picture film, the normal length of film that we would use in a 35 mm motion picture camera when doing dialog work, costs over a $1,000 once it's been exposed, processed and then transferred to a digital media for editing. It's only good for 11 minutes when filming at 24 frames per second, the standard frame rate.

When we shot Silverado ('85) we shot around 250,000' of film. There are plenty of big films these days that will shoot up to a million feet of film!

One of the new RED digital HD camera bodies costs around $18,000. A modern sound 35 mm film camera will cost up to $250,000. That RED camera will need many thousands of dollars worth of accessories before you can really use it, and the images, whether from a Film camera or HD digital camera are still only as good as the lenses you put on it. Some of those zoom lenses costs up to $80,000. Individual motion picture prime lenses, non-zoom single focal lengths, can cost up to $10,000 a piece. The RED can use still camera lenses that only costs $100's of dollars ... but there are limitations to how you can work with those lenses. It's a new world out there.

You can barely see the RED camera BODY beneath all of the accessories that we need ... eye piece finder, on-board monitor, lens ($80K 24/290mm T2.8 Zoom), follow focus, Matte box with filters, power distribution box and ultra sonic distance measuring device. What's missing in this photo from a FORD commercial a couple of weeks ago, is the small recording Hard Drive (instead of CF cards) that mounts on the plate thingy in the foreground on the camera and sometimes an on-board battery. The Hard Drive can be written to faster then CF cards (hard to believe!) allowing higher frames rates ... up to 120 frames per second. We had three RED's on the job. One, stripped down with a short lightweight 15/40 mm zoom, was typically mounted on a Steadicam, while the 3rd one was remotely controlled on a Jib Arm.

[Craig Naylor]

IBM 350: $3,2000 per month lease 1000 made, final year thats $34.4 million in lease revenue in one year! $307.2 million in leases after production ended in '61, plus what ever they made in the 5 years they were in production. How many 4, 8, 16gb flashdrives do they need to sell to make that kind of money?

[Bob Beamesderfer]

IBM 350: $3,2000 per month lease 1000 made, final year thats $34.4 million in lease revenue in one year! $307.2 million in leases after production ended in '61, plus what ever they made in the 5 years they were in production. How many 4, 8, 16gb flashdrives do they need to sell to make that kind of money?

Millions of them. Oddly, IBM is now back to being a business server/network system vendor, having sold the laptop business to Lenovo.