I once bought a real core memory board at a computer flea market. I counted the wires under the magnifying glass and calculated that my 10" X 14" board with a single plane of cores had about a 2K memory capacity.
It blows people away when I show them. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 3:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EDI-L] Re: New community available on EDI-Pls join On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Rachel Foerster wrote: > And then, of course, there was the old Bell 43 dumb terminal and > acoustic > couplers! Yikes!!! We've come a long way, baby! Let's not forget the paper-tapes! I still have a few as a memento. I did show them a few months ago to my now grown up kids who could not believe that we used those instead of memory sticks :-) Klaus [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
