Salvaging Parts

[audioguru]

Of course, my camera has non-volatile memory.
Is the 1GB memory stick in my camera the same an EEPROM?

The new tiny iPod doesn't have enough room for a hard drive but it has a hard drive.

 

[justDIY]

Is the 1GB memory stick in my camera the same an EEPROM?

yep, pretty much - assuming you mean a modern day "flash" eeprom, like an i2c or spi type, or the memory inside a PIC F series microcontroller.

 

[House0Fwax]

My first pc was a 486 that came with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 540MB hard drive..

My first P.C. was a 386 and had a 40 Meg hard drive.

Also, it cost me a fortune to upgrade to ' not much better '.

 

[3v0]

My first PC was an 8088 running at a blistering 10MHz. The drive was 20 MB.

Prior to that I had an HeathKit H11 with 32 MB of DRAM an Intertube(?sp) terminal and a Paper tiger printer. It was that or a new car.

 

[3v0]

If you ever run into a junked electronic controlled washing machine the relay board should have a fair number of yes, relays. At least one large enough to run a 1/4 or maybe larger motor.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

My first PC was an 8088 running at a blistering 10MHz. The drive was 20 MB.

What's a 'hard drive'?

My first PC was an 80xx with two 720K floppies!

Before that I'd been using an Amiga for years, which I'd upgraded with a 40MB external hard drive.

 

[3v0]

The H11 started out with paper tape.

 

[audioguru]

In about 1967 I serviced an office "computer" that had punched cards as its program and used core memory (tiny ferrite donuts on wires intersections).
It used DTL logic ICs.

 

[3v0]

While showing a student how to strip a motherboard using a heat gun we found a Intersil ICL7673 battery backup chip. Mentioned in the battery backup thread started by Souper Man.

Also found some logic level FETs and the inductors from the DC DC converter circuits.

 

[3v0]

In about 1967 I serviced an office "computer" that had punched cards as its program and used core memory (tiny ferrite donuts on wires intersections).
It used DTL logic ICs.

I was only 11 in 67 but...

I programed a IBM 1620 that used punch cards.
Also a DataGeneral Nova where you had to toggle in the boot loader because it did not have a boot ROM.

Somehow I do not miss that...

 

[mdanh2002]

My first pc was a 486 that came with a whopping 4MB of RAM and a 540MB hard drive. It died a couple of years ago with 52MB of RAM and a 2.1GB drive.
My camera has 1GB of RAM.

I still keep my first PC, a 386 with 4MB RAM, configurable to run at either 8MHz or 25MHz with 100MB of HDD. It has a 8X CD-ROM drive, 1 720KB and 1 360K floppy drive, sound card, Adlib on ISA port. As of now it still works properly, running Windows 3.11, with a parallel port printer and even a scanner! It can still connect to the Internet with a dial-up modem!

The old Tandy's Deskmate works on it just fine. (Tandy Deskmate couldn't work on my new P4)

As of now I seldom use it, only turn it on when I feel like playing some classic DOS Games like MARIO (anyone remember?), or writing Assembly programs...

I installed Windows 95 on it a few months back (minimal installation) but it worked very slowly so I revert it back to Windows 3.1.

 

[audioguru]

My 486-100MHz was running on Win98 1st edition and high speed cable internet. It was fine until its 2.1GB hard drive collapsed.