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<font size=3>In 1983, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow for
about $500, and wondered how I would EVER fill up the 5 MB!!!
'Course, we can do a LOTmore these days, such as Call Of Duty, etc, etc.
lol...<br><br>
At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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>
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---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net> 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 <chuenkan@comcast.net>
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>
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