<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Core memory, I bet!<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <I><chuenkan@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV id=yiv2132554780><FONT size=3>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 </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><B>no one</B></FONT><FONT size=3> at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!! And that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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