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What is the smallest SD type memory you own?
I found an old one that is 8MB that came with one of my first digital cameras when I bought it
Now using SDHC cards with 16 and 32 GB
So do you still have some old tech?
Yes Who, I might be about as old as you are, I still have an old ZX spectrum +2, before or around the same time was a Granada Games system. My high School Used the Old BBC Micro Computer, they actually had school records on it. Most of us knew the password, but since it could only be accessed inside the school, we didn't care
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- WhoLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Threw out most small SD cards years ago
But I still have an 8 inch floppy disc (thats correct - 8 inch)
there were 8 inch and then came 5 1/4
(and these WERE floppy discs- they were just magnetic platters in a sleave and you could bend them - if you held them at one corner they would droop - thats WHY they are called "floppy discs")
Then came the 31/2 (discs you have now in the rigid plastic case)
(and amstrad had their own smaller 3 inch floppy discs - think Sony also used them)
First small computer I worked on had 32k( thats 32k, not 32M) of memory, (And you would not believe the cost of a 32k upgrade - it was in the £thousands)
Discs were about 15 inch across in a VERY rigid plastic case. but were only 0.75M (of 8 bits)
The disc took around 30 secs to come up to speed before you could access it, and about 3 minutes to stop if you wanted to change it)
The drive itself took 2 people to lift.
Once worked on a disc that was a big revolving cylinder (about 1ft diameter and 2ft high). mounted vertically - there were several read/write heads also mounted vertically
I also worked on a 23 bit computer (yes it was 23 bits - it was custom designed for the company that used it)
Happy days - and it werent that long ago.
- spew bullLv 48 years ago
i have a floppy disk of a game that im not willing to give up despite no way of playing it. cassette players. thats about it.
- Anonymous8 years ago
30nm DDR3