## 0691: "MicroSD"

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ormondroyd
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I'm 34. When I was a kid I won a BBC Model B micro in a competition.
Terrific computer for its day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro

It was a massive success in Britain and shifted about 1.5 million units.

The vast majority of these had 32KB RAM (there were a few 16KB models, but most were the BBC Model B, the 32K one).

Today, on the back of an envelope (well, MS Calculator), I worked out that all the system RAM of all 1.5 million BBC Micros would most likely fit on three 16GB micro SD cards.

Here's mine:

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Raptortech97 wrote:A lot of people have done calculations. But does anyone actually have a heck of a lot of Micro SD cards to try it out with?

Some simple multiplication later...

[imath]The\;Internet \approx 500,000,000,000,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath]
[imath]One\;card = 16,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath]
[imath]Price\;of\;one\;card = $59.99[/imath] [imath]Price\;of\;the\;Internet \approx (5 \times 10^{26}) / (1.6 \times 10^{14}) \times 59.99 \approx$21,460,571,386,791,375.33[/imath]

The Internet costs over $21 quadrillion USD to store. That's more than there is in the world, plus it's probably more than Sandisk can manufacture. Who wants to start up a fund to buy the Internet? I'll start with fifteen cents I have left over from breakfast. http://internetometer.com/give/4279 No one can agree how to count how many types of people there are. You could ask two people and get 10 different answers. BlueNight Posts: 270 Joined: Sat Aug 18, 2007 3:59 am UTC Location: Albuquerque Contact: ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion Today, while staring absentmindedly at the recovery disk taped to the side of the proprietary Pentium that runs some specialized hardware, I had an idea. Hollow out a 3.5" floppy, and store your MicroSD cards in there. It's both functional and ironic. Heck, I might just do that with my regular SD cards. I only have a few lying around. --------- BlueNight jendral_hxr Posts: 44 Joined: Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:57 am UTC Contact: ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion XbHW_TestEngr wrote: and to hold other electronics (so the gov't can spy on you). Really, our memory has transmitting device? Aww, c'mon! I wish I weren't so stupid miles Posts: 18 Joined: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:58 am UTC ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion ThemePark wrote: miles wrote:http://xkcd.com/691/ Title text: "That card holds a refrigerator carton's worth of floppy discs, and a soda can full of those cards could hold the entire iTunes store's music library. Mmmm." ^oi alty texty now I've only had one SD card which was a 128mb, same like I only have a 512mb flash drive, who actually needs more?? I have a 1 TB external harddrive, 640 GB external harddrive, a 320 GB flash drive, a 160 GB harddrive in my netbook, a 80 GB harddrive in my laptop, and a 300 GB harddrive that I will use once I built myself a decent stationary computer. I'd wager that about half, maybe more, of that is filled up with data,.. oh I do have hard drives, I just don't see the point microsds with 16gb space being developed for cameras, if you take that many pictures, somethings wrong with you (unless you're a traveling photographer, valid reasons, etc) I have three WD 1TB, four Seagate 500GB 7200.11, one WD 500GB "green", one WD 300GB velociraptor Bobsama Posts: 31 Joined: Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:26 am UTC ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion crazy_ninja wrote:I feel as though fitting the entire iTunes catalog inside a soda/pop/coke can is indicative of the need to increase the quality of the sound files they store... We have space now The reason that iTunes and other services are still so stuck on MP3 or ACC is because not everyone has access to a high-speed internet connection. There are a lot of people that only have two options; satellite "broadband" or dial-up.$50 for 512/128 (7.5gb DL limit), $70 for 1024/200 (12gb DL limit),$80 for 1536/256 (17gb DL limit). Pretty expensive, especially when considering how poor the actual connection quality can be, doubly-so from a simple ping time. If you play around with iTunes Plus... 78 minutes of music is about 152MB (The Who; 'Who's Next'). 71.3 minutes of music is about 139MB (G N' R; 'Chinese Democracy'). So yeah, 291MB for 149 minutes. You'd be limited to about 50-60 albums on iTunes, not including your other browsing. MP3 is a necessary evil; I don't like it.

owyn999
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Yup been saying this for about 2 years now... and ending the sentence with... yup cause we all know nintendo was wrong...

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BlueNight wrote:Today, while staring absentmindedly at the recovery disk taped to the side of the proprietary Pentium that runs some specialized hardware, I had an idea.

Hollow out a 3.5" floppy, and store your MicroSD cards in there. It's both functional and ironic.

Heck, I might just do that with my regular SD cards. I only have a few lying around.

I have already explained why SD cards are not viable floppy replacements. It is for that reason my router is running from a floppy disk instead of a SD card.
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owyn999 wrote:Yup been saying this for about 2 years now... and ending the sentence with... yup cause we all know nintendo was wrong...

The N64 was ace. However It's generally down to how you use it. The 64 could render only half of the polys the Playstation could. But Nintendo used it better. The cartridges could not hold the same data as a CD, but GoldenEye was never beaten on the Playstation.
Oh, and they kept the carts for the DS and the other gameboys. Shows Sony up with their UMD disks.
So do we have Nintendo to thank for all these tiny miniature cards?
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merseyless
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32GB Micro SD comes out in February.

once these come out I'm teaming one up with my sansa clip+, 40GB of lossless music including the player in a size smaller than a matchbox...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon hurtling down the freeway full of magnetic media.

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ormondroyd wrote:Note to Americans and other aliens: 5p coins are very, *VERY* small...

A note to my fellow American aliens: the British 5p coin is just a hair larger in diameter than a dime* and two hairs thicker.

Dime: 0.705 in. (17.91 mm) diameter, 0.053 in. (1.35 mm) thick
5p: 18 mm diameter, 1.7 mm thick

By the way, the new 5p is uuuuuuugly, forgive me for saying so. The bit of harp showing on the lower left looks more like a kitchen faucet.

* The US 10 cent coin (the smallest current US coin), which is depicted in the foreground of the second panel of the comic. The dime carries the oldest unchanged design of all current US coin denominations, dating from 1946 (with only changes in the location of the mint mark to denote the switch from silver to clad composition and other mint mark changes).
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Louis.biglou
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"something smaller than a dime" and will fit inside a silver dollar.

just signed up to post this.

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Louis.biglou wrote:"something smaller than a dime" and will fit inside a silver dollar.

just signed up to post this.

I wonder why that isn't considered counterfeit. Not that someone would bother trying to pass that off as real money. Or are those real coins that have been hallowed out?

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Wummi
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geekettes & geeks: let me present my first harddrive (i still have it!)

80MB

Rejusu
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TheChewanater wrote:
Louis.biglou wrote:"something smaller than a dime" and will fit inside a silver dollar.

just signed up to post this.

I wonder why that isn't considered counterfeit. Not that someone would bother trying to pass that off as real money. Or are those real coins that have been hallowed out?

Yeah if you look at the product description they're real coinage that's been hollowed. Still not sure of how legit that is but it gets around the counterfeit rules quite nicely.

Also dennisw the new 5p's don't look so bad in person. The shininess definitely helps.

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TheChewanater wrote:
Raptortech97 wrote:A lot of people have done calculations. But does anyone actually have a heck of a lot of Micro SD cards to try it out with?

Some simple multiplication later...

[imath]The\;Internet \approx 500,000,000,000,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath]
[imath]One\;card = 16,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath]
[imath]Price\;of\;one\;card = $59.99[/imath] [imath]Price\;of\;the\;Internet \approx (5 \times 10^{26}) / (1.6 \times 10^{14}) \times 59.99 \approx$21,460,571,386,791,375.33[/imath]

The Internet costs over $21 quadrillion USD to store. That's more than there is in the world, plus it's probably more than Sandisk can manufacture. Who wants to start up a fund to buy the Internet? I'll start with fifteen cents I have left over from breakfast. And that assumes that the Web will stop growing as you're buying it--on our deathbed it'll probably be so big that they'll have to figure out a new name and system of math to process it in our minds. santy22 Posts: 6 Joined: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:38 pm UTC ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion I'd like to see the real chip size of a microsd. The black thing is there so we dont break it. EDIT: I just found out that the maximum size a microsd (or any SD/MMC) can have is 128 GB. (wikipedia) Holy crap. phillipsjk Posts: 1213 Joined: Wed Nov 05, 2008 4:09 pm UTC Location: Edmonton AB Canada Contact: ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion I am going to have to look into MMC (pin compatible with SD cards). At least he initial versions do not have DRM. They also don't have a write-protect tab, but few storage formats do these days. Edit: temporary and permanent write-protect is supported through software. I would still prefer a physical switch in case the OS is compromised. Samsung MMC Datasheet (pdf) Did you get the number on that truck? Raptortech97 Posts: 61 Joined: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:39 pm UTC ### Re: "MicroSD" Discussion DarkKnightJared wrote: TheChewanater wrote: Raptortech97 wrote:A lot of people have done calculations. But does anyone actually have a heck of a lot of Micro SD cards to try it out with? Some simple multiplication later... [imath]The\;Internet \approx 500,000,000,000,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath] [imath]One\;card = 16,000,000,000\;Bytes[/imath] [imath]Price\;of\;one\;card =$59.99[/imath]
[imath]Price\;of\;the\;Internet \approx (5 \times 10^{26}) / (1.6 \times 10^{14}) \times 59.99 \approx $21,460,571,386,791,375.33[/imath] The Internet costs over$21 quadrillion USD to store. That's more than there is in the world, plus it's probably more than Sandisk can manufacture.

Who wants to start up a fund to buy the Internet? I'll start with fifteen cents I have left over from breakfast.

And that assumes that the Web will stop growing as you're buying it--on our deathbed it'll probably be so big that they'll have to figure out a new name and system of math to process it in our minds.

I'm not talking about putting the internet on microSD cars; I'm talking about filling a soda can with microSD cards, and seeing how many that is.

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leandrotlz
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Today, SanDisk introduced a 128GB microSDXC memory card. What could be stored in a soda can full of those, I wonder? I'd post a link but the forums are flagging it as spam; the news release is the first result for sandisk 128gb in Google.

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