>> This from the guy who brought core memory to a LUG show-and-tell. >>You always end up topping all the "I remember when" conversations. No >>fair starting them, too. ;-)
>Sorry Ben, I really don't mean it to be a contest. I just do it every >once in a while to put some reality back into what has become a very >surreal industry. Bummer. Then I won't mention the 10 MB Corvus disk I bought for my Heathkit H89 (running C/PM). The $3,000 included the interface card. That was the first hard drive I wrote the check for. >I know there are guys on the list who can top my "$128,000.00 purchase >of 64 Kilobytes of core in 1978" story. Come to think about it, even I >can top it. :-) Must've been good core, a dollar a byte was a good deal in the early 70s. We used to make comparisons like "If the automobile industry had improved at the same rate as computers...." It's been a long time since that made any sense - a car would travel at Mach 10, seat 1,500, get 500 mpg, and fold up and fit in your shirt pocket. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
