[TR] Cheers!

Dave dave1massey at cs.com
Mon Apr 17 14:24:34 MDT 2017


In the late 70's to 81 I was working with a mini computer that used core memory.  This was a 19 inch rack type device and the core planes filled several levels.  Then they came out with a really big computer that had a hard drive.  It was a good 14 inches in diameter and 5 or 6 inches tall and the annual service was to refill it with nitrogen (or some other clean, dry gas).  It had a whopping 1 megabyte!

 

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Mathews <ddmdoug at gmail.com>
To: triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, Apr 17, 2017 1:02 pm
Subject: Re: [TR] Cheers!

This may be hard to believe, but in the 80's I had (at work)  an IBM 
3270PC-XT. Really tricked out with memory and good size hard drive. 
Cost--~10K.

When I started (yes we all walked 10 miles in the snow to work;-) work 
in the late 60's  memory for the IBM mainframe was $1.00/byte. We had 
512K.......1/2 Million$

Doug




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