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Article #625513Re: PDP 11/40 system manual
From: JimP
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:54
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 19:54
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 14:04:55 -0500, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >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! Mine came from watching a documentary on the Apollo Space Program. One of the Apollo astronauts pointing to his watch with calculator, and mentioning it had more memory than the computer on the Apollo craft.
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