Sandisk CompactFlash rebates

[Riff Raff]

I hadn't seen this mentioned elsewhere, really. Current prices at B&H WITHOUT the rebates:

Extreme III 8GB - $100
Extreme III 16GB - $200

That's already less than I paid for an 8GB about a month ago. But apparently they have mail-in (eww) rebates going also, for $40 back on the 8GB or $90 back on the 16GB. So theoretical prices with rebates:

Extreme III 8GB - $60
Extreme III 16GB - $110

That's... a hell of a deal. It amazes me when I glance at my B&H order history and notice that I paid $250 or so for a 512MB card four years ago (and it seemed so big at the time...).

[HutchPhoto]

Shawn
Thanks for posting the good prices on the 8 and 16gb cards..

Yeah & thanks for digging up the PAST.



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[KeithnFW]

If prices like this keep up they will be 8gb for $20

Amazon has the same price as B&H

[BrianY]

Sandisk's are awesome. Careful about the rebate though...

There are numerous complaints against the company handling the rebates. Seems to be a low success rate for the rebates.

If you get anything back consider it extra.

[NikkiLoehr]

thanks for the info.

[SCone]

Originally Posted by Riff Raff

It amazes me when I glance at my B&H order history and notice that I paid $250 or so for a 512MB card four years ago (and it seemed so big at the time...).

I can remember laboring over upgrading a computer years ago. The new hard drive was going to cost me $340 for a WHOPPING 40MB. Just bought an HP Media Drive, 80GB for only $30 from Office Depot. Big close-out sale they had. Going to start checking with them more form now on.

[AndrewCCM]

Don't get me started.. Does anyone remember Winchester Hard Drives??? They offered 3 sizes.. 5, 10 and 15 (MEGABYTE). Looked like a shoebox. Those were the days.

Can't believe I used to run a BBS with a 300 baud modem that I answered by hand when I first started. LOL!!!!

[Riff Raff]

Yeah, both flash memory and hard drives seem to be increasing in size geometrically of late. Good thing though. It looks like I've taken about 217GB worth of photos in the past nine months, since I got the Rebel XTi. Every photo taken in the six years before that (with Olympus P&S cameras) adds up to 96GB by comparison.

I'd normally assume it's just a symptom of getting older, and that things are progressing faster than I keep up with them. But I actually went and checked the SanDisk press release from Photokina 2006 when the 16GB Extreme III cards were launched. The original MSRP was $1,050 when they went on sale in December 2006. So the price has gone down by almost 90% (factoring in the rebate) in slightly over one year. That's insane. Remember back when people were excited about Microdrive cards?

[engstrom]

So Andrew, did you have to learn to whistle a 300 baud carrier tone when picking up a telephone handset on the same line as the BBS to disconnect a previous caller who had their connection abruptly dropped?

Those were the good old days. :)

[AndrewCCM]

Originally Posted by engstrom

So Andrew, did you have to learn to whistle a 300 baud carrier tone when picking up a telephone handset on the same line as the BBS to disconnect a previous caller who had their connection abruptly dropped?

Those were the good old days. :)

Man.. OK>. now you did it.. and yes I am hijacking this thread.

First off, yes I could whistle the tone to negotiate a carrier detect with 300 - 9600 baud modems. What can I say, I am talented.

But here is where it gets funny. I "upgraded" to the Hayes Smartmodem 300 (external RS232/serial) which had AutoAnswer.. what a novel concept. BUT here is the thing.. We wrote the BBS software ourselves on a TI-99/4A (later an Apple IIe, then onto a 386SX-16 IBM Clone)...and within all of the tools/compilers we had there was (or we couldn't find it) no memory address to "peek" to detect Carrier Detect (or LACK THERE OF). Our solution: Take the RS232 cable peel back one of the unused wires, add a resistor, and connect up to the CD LED on the front of the Smartmodem. This would then be terminated into a 9 pin JOYSTICK port. From there, we would check for a signal (which so happened to be the same signal as pulling back on the joystick) to determine an active Carrier Detect.

To make things even more hilarious, when we wanted to test the BBS and couldn't dial in ourselves... whatcha think we did? Yep, connected the joystick and pulled back...If we let go, the app would reset and wait for a new "caller". LOL!!!!

OMG - I have just officially over-geeked myself on this forum.

Crazy what you come up with when your 14yrs old and have no life outside of the computer.

Things have progressed a little in that regard. I am married with 2 kids..

HiJack over. SORRY!

[Riff Raff]

It's OK. I asked my Dad for an Intellivision, and he bought us a TI 99/4A instead. Eventually with the expansion box, 32KB memory expansion, floppy disk (SO much better than cassette tapes!), and yes... the 300 baud acoustic coupler modem. As a result of TI Extended Basic and TI Logo, I've been making a living as a computer programmer for a decade now. Best decision my father ever made for me was saying no to the game console...

[AndrewCCM]

Same here.. I got all those darn things too!! Including P-Code Card, speech synthesizer, Editor/Assembler, Extended Basic, etc...

I am not a programmer though.. I am in IT Security Management so it's up the same alley for sure. My good friend that did most of the BBS programming is now a killer programmer (ie, very good).

Dad bought me the TI instead of the Apple II+ at the time... First 16bit machine if I remember correctly. LOL

[dreemes]

Originally Posted by AndrewCCM

Don't get me started.. Does anyone remember Winchester Hard Drives??? They offered 3 sizes.. 5, 10 and 15 (MEGABYTE). Looked like a shoebox. Those were the days.

Can't believe I used to run a BBS with a 300 baud modem that I answered by hand when I first started. LOL!!!!

Lets see if I can remember that far back. Seems like they started out at around $2500. I was using a C=128. And I ran a BBS for awhile myself.

Trivia time... Who said "640k ought to be enough for anyone"
Edited to say or was it "640k should be enough for anyone" I think my memory needs to be replaced :)


Now for the Sandisk... Looks like it is time to buy some more CF cards.