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[Ron Van Putte]

A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one  
terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I  
told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.

Ron VP

On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:

> Core memory, I bet!
>
> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when  
> I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital  
> Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp  
> center.  A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked  
> him something about the memory modules.  He didn't know the answer,  
> and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one  
> at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!!  And  
> that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...
>
>
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