Thank you wiggy #23.
To all the oldies; yes, yes, but would you actually want to go back to using charts and sextants or manual chokes on your cars, or no remote control for your TV's etc??
We had this database situation on some of our Airbusses a few years back. It arises because there is not enough memory in the FMGC to hold all the required databases, so we had to load Europe Central and East, or Europe Central and West, depending where we were going.
Ridiculous in this day and age, but the real question for me is why extra or larger capacity memory chips cannot simply be plugged in by the engineers like some of us do with our PC's or laptops.