Moores Law

kwikbreaks

I wondered how long I'd had my gmail account and dug back for my earliest saved email. In doing so I came across this invoice. It's only 11 years old.....

bengalknights

Ive got invoices older than that from Misco and Ebuyer!

Rubidium

Whoosh - straight over his head!

jshm2

Did you really pay almost 50 banger for a USB back then? No wonder you've got the debt you have!

MyMemory and Gearbest have always been the online places to get Flash drives to this day.

kwikbreaks

I'll guarantee that it was the going rate at the time. Note that it was the newer faster USB2 type not that plain old USB rubbish and was a whole GigaByte

paddyrg

The first USB stick I bought I paid over £100 for 128MB. I was waiting for the price to drop below £1/MB before taking the plunge! I think that'd be around 1998/1999. Now I can get 1000 x that capacity for around £25.

kwikbreaks

I've still got a 128MB one - pretty much useless of course but I haven't junked it. No idea what I paid for it though as I bought most of my stuff though my company in the early days and I've made sure all those accounts have been shredded to protect the guilty

John_Gray

I bought a 28 MB USB Flash drive from a colleague for about £20, ever so many years ago, and it still works! You can't do much now in 28 MB, though.

Tesco are currently selling a "Back to Skool" 16 GB flash drive for £3.50...

shaun_from_Africa

John_Gray wrote: »

I bought a 28 MB USB Flash drive from a colleague for about £20

28MB for £20 looks like a bargain.

rmg1

I was given an 80GB HDD some time ago. It's an IDE one but is still usable. I dropped it into a caddy and it was still accessible (but that was months ago).

Not sure what I'll use it for now though (probably a paperweight).

My oldest email is from 2008 (it's one I ported from Tiscali and is telling me I didn't get the job I applied for )

Doshwaster

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I've still got a 128MB one - pretty much useless of course but I haven't junked it. No idea what I paid for it though as I bought most of my stuff though my company in the early days and I've made sure all those accounts have been shredded to protect the guilty

I think my first USB drive was 128 MB and cost about £70. I needed it for work but my boss took some convincing to approve my expense claim.

My first digital camera had a 32MB SD card. A friend at the time was into high end camera kit and he had a 1GB card which I thought was ludicrously big.