Hi zMan,
Ah, well, whatz a couple of typpos among firends? :) Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "zMan" <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:13:24 PM Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Linda Mooney <linda.lst...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi John and Ed, > > Yowsers! > > That's really tiny! Just in my career - The first machine I was paid to work > with was a 4341 with 8MB and 8 channels. My IPhone has 32MB. The > possibilities of 2.5 Petabytes is, well, an awful lot. I can't help but > wonder what some of the early computing pioneers would think of this. I suspect your iPhone has 32GB, not MB... And let's not start swapping "You had 8MB? We had 5 bytes...and we LOVED it!" stories, eh? Related, however: this could make a reality something I read a while ago suggestion that memory would soon be cheap enough that we could have HD video of our surroundings recording constantly. This could/would change things a fair bit, both good and bad. -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
