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Article #625512Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:04
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:04
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On 8/17/2018 1:08 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-08-16, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> On 15 Aug 2018 23:58:51 GMT >> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> >>> And now SD cards are a dollar a gigabyte. <shakes head in wonder> >> >> They're way cheaper than that, you can get a decent 128GB micro SD >> card from a reputable supplier for less than €35. > > And the beat goes on... > > A dollar a gigabyte is so easy to say, though - > even though it is already becoming a bit dated. > Back 25 years or so ago, I was oblivious to the memory explosion. In a Target store near the toy department, I saw a "memory expansion" for a video game console. The claim on the package said you could save more game information about games in progress. The little memory cartridge had 16 megabytes of memory! And I recalled that was the *max* memory complement for an IBM 370... We are well beyond that now, I realize... but even that shocked me! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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