More horizon broadening... macs!

[jbeckva]

Oh man... so now I'm checking out the "dark side" of computers... macs.

I have to, as I'm now getting into development for mobile devices such as iPhones.. iPads.. Droids, etc.. Seems on the iPad/iPhone side getting a mac is a prereq to getting all the development tools together to write for it. "Work" purchased one of those "mac mini" devices for me to get up to speed with. And it's kind of neat... It's the size of a red baron personal pizza box, but it still has a lotta power.

I feel lazy tho, heheh. Gotta understand why - I started with old ratshack trash 80's, then had a wee little XT 8086 based 'puter with a whole 768k (that's "k"... not meg.. not gig.. "k".. ) of memory, and that's only because I bought the "upgrade" - a 20 pin DIP I.C. that cost me some ungodly amount of clams (>150 bucks, I think). Thought windows 3.1 was for wussies... heheh (yah, that' is 3.1 windows.. not WFW 3.11.. just "winders").

point.. click.. drag.. pick nose... it's all good..

 

[laatsch55]

What did you just say??

 

[Oktyabr]

LOL! "K" of memory! I was posting on a PC repair page on FB and got to talking to one of the younger members about the prices of RAM and how they've fallen. Of course he had no real grasp on what I was talking about so I dug up an old advertisement for 128MB sticks of RAM that he still didn't really seem too impressed with... Until I told him "My desktop PC has 16GB of RAM in it... at those prices it would be just shy of $80,000." :O

Here, you might get a kick out of this: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-tech-ads/

 

[jbeckva]

Wow that was a trip down memory lane there, Jon!

What I find really amusing is the 5th one down - the one with the picture of the 10MB platter drive system from "Morrow".

Looks almost just like the old disks and drives I had to deal with, working on that old OLD Navy avionics test bench in my old days. But what's really amusing is if you have worked on drives and discs like that, you would know at first glance that the picture in the ad depicts a disc that is totally "crashed". You can see the bare scuff marks on the platter toward the inner ring, where the head lost it and took out that 1000 to 2000 dollar disk platter.

Made an awful screeching sound you can hear all the way from the other side of the shop, usually accompanied by smoke.

 

[jbeckva]

And wow.. can you imagine 200 a MEG for HD storage??? Geezus... a 1TB for $200,000.00???

Yep, came a long way..

 

[jbeckva]

Aha.. bet you never saw this old computer ad??

 

[orange]

O M * G : )

 

[stuwee]

O M * G : )

I bet Rick James never had a mofo thang as big as that... , I've missed ya Steven,,,