On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+...@patriot.net> wrote:
>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. For those 4-bit bytes? Anyway, I was actually referring to transportation to Australia! But yes, it was hyperbolic. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
