Linda,

This development is simply amazing........as a dinosaur of the original 80 
column card age ...things have really changed, big time


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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 
> 
> 
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> 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 
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> 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" 
> 
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