In
<cafo-8tqjyn93goky4mjxmvayt1edjcvhphgwcgouekxz-g7...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 03/16/2013
at 10:50 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> said:
>Done by Mexican peasants, paid pennies...but yeah. I suspect
>shipping it may have cost more than making it at the time.
I seriously doubt that transportation was a significant part of the
cost back when core was $0.25/bit. Also, the manual threading of the
wires was only practical for small memories with large core sizes;
eventually that had to be automated.
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Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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