<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Well I just tried to renew through the site and it took me to some realestate site.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tim<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 12/3/10, seefo@san.rr.com <I><seefo@san.rr.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: seefo@san.rr.com <seefo@san.rr.com><BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<BR>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR>Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 8:22 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB, and cost $450. Storage and RAM are crazy cheap these days. Consider that the software used to control the Command Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K of memory. 2 blocks of ROM (24k and 32k each) and 1 block of RAM (4k). <BR><BR>Doug<BR><BR><BR><BR>---- Ron Van Putte <<A href="http://us.mc623.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vanputte@cox.net" ymailto="mailto:vanputte@cox.net">vanputte@cox.net</A>> wrote: <BR>> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one <BR>> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I <BR>> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.<BR>> <BR>> Ron VP<BR>> <BR>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:<BR>> <BR>> > Core memory, I bet!<BR>> ><BR>> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <<A href="http://us.mc623.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=chuenkan@comcast.net"
ymailto="mailto:chuenkan@comcast.net">chuenkan@comcast.net</A>> wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when <BR>> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital <BR>> > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp <BR>> > center. A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked <BR>> > him something about the memory modules. He didn't know the answer, <BR>> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one <BR>> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!! And <BR>> > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>> > <A
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