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Re: Storage Cost Calculation

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2014-09-27 23:04 -0600
Subject Re: Storage Cost Calculation
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2011/11/30/bbc_micro_model_b_30th_anniversary/
>
> At the time, the BBC Micro memory was (I think) expandable: the Model B
> could be upgraded to 128K of memory, double what Bill Gates allegedly said
> was the most anyone would ever need. (He probably didn't say that.) So what
> we need is to find out what an upgrade would have cost.

Actually it was 640K in the alleged Bill Gates quote, although I do
believe that quote has pretty much been debunked. It was allegedly
stated in 1981, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence of it
circulating prior to about 1992. Gates himself denies ever having said
it, and maintains that he in fact held the opposite opinion.

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Re: Storage Cost Calculation MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-27 16:41 +0100
  Re: Storage Cost Calculation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-28 11:14 +1000
    Re: Storage Cost Calculation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-28 11:37 +1000
      Re: Storage Cost Calculation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-28 12:47 +1000
        Re: Storage Cost Calculation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-28 13:35 +1000
          Re: Storage Cost Calculation Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-28 14:39 +1000
            Re: Storage Cost Calculation Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-09-28 11:32 -0400
        Re: Storage Cost Calculation Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-27 23:04 -0600
        Re: Storage Cost Calculation Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-28 20:07 +0000
          Re: Storage Cost Calculation Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-09-29 14:44 +0000

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