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OT: Boy do things change fast now days.

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Kelly C

01-27-2006 07:06:20

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Just a observation.
I remember when CD writers 1st came out. I wanted one real bad, but they cost $2500 for one.

I did finnaly get one. I paid almost $400 for a HP writer.
I am now Ebaying some of my old stuff and thought I would sell it. Figured if I got $40 or $50 for it I would be doing good.
Heck no value in any of that kind of stuff. You can buy all you want for less than $20 new on Ebay.
Funny how that Technology stuff has a real short life cycle.

Not mad about it. It is actually a good thing. CD writers are cool. Now every one can have one.
Just seems strange, it really messes with your value system. I have a old CPU in the drawer that I paid $700 and was very proud to have it. It has no value no at all. NONE. I might as well throw it out. But I cant. I feel like I would be thowing $700 out the door.

ARG... I better get used to that. When your at the time a Item goes from being something to being a comodity.

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Cue P.

01-27-2006 09:21:22

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 07:06:20

Throw out your cd writer and get a USB drive. Also known as a "thumb" drive or data stick> Holds 256M, plugs into your USB port. Computer sees it as just another drive you can copy files to. About the size of a keychain trinket. Great for backups and transfering files from one computer to another.

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Kelly C

01-27-2006 09:35:48

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Cue P., 01-27-2006 09:21:22

I have some of those. heck you can use them for every thing. Digital camaras, every thing. Not sure I want to keep back ups on that though. Maybe short term is ok.
I just pulled out my old 1998 Tax returns I saved on floppy disk. Cant read them any longer. Hope Uncle sugar dont need to see those.
In 2000 I started scanning all my papper and copying to CD Hope that lasts a wile. I can still read them any way.

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Haas

01-27-2006 14:41:23

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 09:35:48

I think it was Consumers Union that had an article on the life of CDs a couple years ago. Nothing is "permanent", and CDs are no exception. They evaluated several different brands as I recall, and the longest projected life was around 20 years. Some were less than 10 years. The rewritable kind were the shortest life.

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williamf

01-27-2006 10:28:14

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 09:35:48

My understanding, such as it is, is that the factory made CDs and DVDs have the info cut into them (with laser?) and they may last a very long time. The ones we do at home are chemical; the (laser?) makes changes to the dye and the reader sees that. No one knows for sure yet how long they'll last, the guys who used to be on TechTV worried that it might only be ten years or so.
Wm
PS, my first computer experience was a Computer Physics class for my freshman science requirement, 1969. We used a paper tape terminal over a audio modem (dial it up, lay the handset in the cradle) to a timeshare mainframe in Atlanta. Advanced Basic or Basic II, I forget.
The instructor wanted me to stick with it, learn Cobol and Fortran. It was obvious to me there was no future in it, I was going to be a History Major.
Wm

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little john

01-27-2006 11:56:18

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to williamf, 01-27-2006 10:28:14

Hello William. I did not know about the differences in commercially made DVDs and the ones made at home. I assumed my DVDs would be set for a long life....that's one main reason I've made them. Could you tell me where I might learn more about this?
Thanks for some interesting information.
jwc1934@aol.com

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Hermit

01-27-2006 17:14:34

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to little john, 01-27-2006 11:56:18

Here's a document that covers everything you might want to know about DVDs and CDs. Have fun.

Link

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little john

01-28-2006 05:09:50

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Hermit, 01-27-2006 17:14:34

Thank you for the address.

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john d

01-27-2006 08:57:49

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 07:06:20

When I went back to Purdue after Christmas break during my freshman year, there was a guy in my dorm who had a brand new pocket calculator. It was the first one that I (and most of the other guys) had seen. We sat around that Sunday evening admiring it and playing with it. After all, we were doing our physics and chemistry problems with slide rules!
Jim's family had lots of $$$ and his mom had given it to him for Christmas. It was about 5" long, nearly 4" wide, and over an inch thick. I remember it ran on "C" size flashlight batteries. All it would do was add, subtract, multipy, divide, and.... (WONDER OF WONDERS) square root! Jim's mother had shelled out over $400 for this gadget, in a day when the minimum wage was $1.50 per hour. That much money today in comparison to the minimum wage will buy a very respectable computer.

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Rauville

01-27-2006 07:37:21

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 07:06:20

Years ago when hand-held calculators were first coming out I bought a Texas Instrument for over $200. Later, when it quit working...I even sent it back for repair at a cost of $135! Today, they are handed out like business cards.
Thank goodness old tractors haven't followed everything else to the technology grave...yet.

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Dick Davis

01-28-2006 02:34:36

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Rauville, 01-27-2006 07:37:21

Rauville, my son put an old hand held multifuntion Texas Instrument computer he bought in college 16 years ago - up for sale on E bay and sold it for $ 250! He was amazed that there were so many bids. So don't just chuck it someone may still value the gear. Not like Farmalls. My nickel Dick davis

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Haas

01-27-2006 07:37:15

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Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. in reply to Kelly C, 01-27-2006 07:06:20

Paid $3200 for my first IBM PC in 1981. It was used!! The guy I got it from was upgrading to a PC with a hard disk, as I recall that had 2 megabyte capacity. My used PC had 64 kilobytes (yes that's KILO) of ram and two 5 1/4 inch floppy drives. As I rcall the floppys held 160 KB back then. I upgraded with more memory and a hard disk later that was 10 MB as I recall. Cost about $500. Used that thing for about 10 years until a thunderstorm took it out. I'm sure that $3200 would be equivalent to over $5000 in todays world.

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