Linda, This development is simply amazing........as a dinosaur of the original 80 column card age ...things have really changed, big time
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Linda Mooney <linda.lst...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
