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<CAFO-8tp4s29f06q1y4SGU7gb=klzmr1ngxowa7g_kidg4vs...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 05/29/2014
at 02:55 PM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> said:
>I remember my father telling me that core -- REAL memory, a MAN'S
>memory (yeah, yeah, sexist) -- was $1/byte. Obviously that would have
>changed by the time it all went solid-state, but does anyone remember
>whether this was correct or not?
I remember 25ยข/bit; the number would depend on the year. There was
certainly a year for which $1/octet would have been correct.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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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