Forum: Photography


Subject: Technology marches on

MGD opened this issue on Oct 01, 2005 ยท 12 posts


MGD posted Sat, 01 October 2005 at 11:30 AM

Greetings, This morning, I saw a new CF listed on geeks.com (No, I don't work for them -- whenever I like what I see for sale on their site, I have to pay to touch it). They offered a Seaqate ST1 5GB CompactFlash Type II Card for $135 (and also a Hitachi 4GB for $88). I had not realized that CF drives were available with that much capacity. In fact, after checking the seagate.com site, I found out that they offer CF devices as large as 8GB. While these days a 5GB drive doesn't sound like much ... I remember that the first HDD I used was an IBM 2311 disk drive (removable) with capacity of 7.25 million bytes and was about the size of an under-the-counter refrigerator (about 2 ft. by 2 ft. and about 4 ft high). For that matter, that 1983 IBM XT with a 10MB HDD about the size of a brick was also amazing. MGD PS ... sorry, but that 5GB CF device probably won't work in any of our cameras.