Size of Nes Cartridge compaird to SMC

[Steve-O]

I was playing on the Nes Emu the other day and thought -

"FFS Look at how many Nes Roms/games I can fit onto this tiny thin bit of plastic compaired to 1 Nes Cartridge which is about 200 times bigger than a SMC Card..."

Anyone else thought of that or is it just me???

 

[EvilDragon]

Not exactly NES, but GameBoy...
But I remembered the time, when I had my GameBoy and 20 cartridges with me in airplanes...

 

[declaration]

it is amazing. I used to have a 30mb atari st hard drive and it was absolutely huge. now we can store 4 times that amount on a tiny little card and use it anywhere.

 

[generalnmx]

I think the name of it is Moore's Law - computer technology increases exponentionally over time.

 

[jegHegy]

Moore's (Intel's former CEO) law is actually about the number of transistors doubling every 18 months in CPU's.

 

[unlucky]

yes but the basic idea of the law can be applied to most components of a pc and will generally work

 

[lurch]

Actually-If you opened an NES cart you would find the rom was actually very small.I think they made the cart big so people thought they were getting something substantial for their money.Also it was a system for kids so the carts needed to be robust and hard to lose.But things have changed a lot over the last 20 odd years.I've seen electronics shrink so much I wonder how far it can go.Nanotechnology anyone?

 

[seth]

they alreayd have pcs that can fit in your pocket in devleopment

 

[divadsci]

Nanotechnology anyone?

not for a while yet. although IBM did once spend a day moving a few atoms around to spell the letters IBM

 

[declaration]

they alreayd have pcs that can fit in your pocket in devleopment

they are called gp32's!

 

[Azure]

Yeah I thought about this too.

 

[chunk-e-munk-e]

they already have pcs that can fit in your pocket in devleopment

kinda like this then??