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Re: IBM system/360 ad

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On 2019-11-25, Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Monday, November 25, 2019 at 2:20:53 PM UTC-7, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
>> https://archive.org/details/Nations-Business-1964-12/page/n51
>>
>> Available with up to 8 meg of memory!
>>
>> (I thought S/360 could handle up to 16 meg?  But maybe in those
>> days no one could see needing more than 8 meg.  Indeed, I think
>> if you wanted that much you had to get the "LCS" which was
>> core but slow core.)
>
> Yes, that's right. And 16 megabytes of slow core could be attached to the 
> largest models in the System/360 line... which weren't available yet at
> the time of that advertisement.

Besides, hardly anyone would have been able to afford that much core.
I remember seeing an article in a trade rag around 1971 or so about
how IBM rocked the industry by slashing the price of a megabyte of
memory from $75,000 to a mere $15,000.

(Meanwhile, I'm slipping into my pocket a thumb drive that cost me
50 cents per gigabyte...)

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IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-25 13:20 -0800
  Re: IBM system/360 ad Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-11-25 15:07 -0800
    Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-26 01:22 +0000
      Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-27 12:54 -0800
        Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-28 18:08 +0000
      Re: IBM system/360 ad Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2019-11-28 09:44 +0000
        Re: IBM system/360 ad Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2019-11-28 11:04 -0700
  Re: IBM system/360 ad Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2019-11-25 14:41 -1000
    Re: IBM system/360 ad scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-11-26 01:31 +0000
    Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-27 12:49 -0800
      Re: IBM system/360 ad Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2019-11-27 21:23 +0000
        Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-27 13:39 -0800
          Re: IBM system/360 ad J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2019-11-27 18:18 -0500
            Re: IBM system/360 ad Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2019-12-02 00:23 +0100
              Re: IBM system/360 ad scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-12-02 15:37 +0000
      Re: IBM system/360 ad David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2019-11-28 03:16 +0000
  Re: IBM system/360 ad David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2019-11-26 21:35 +0000
    Re: IBM system/360 ad Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-11-26 22:21 +0000
    Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-26 22:50 +0000
      Re: IBM system/360 ad David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2019-11-27 00:41 +0000
        Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-27 05:49 +0000
          Re: IBM system/360 ad David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2019-11-27 11:22 +0000
            Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-27 19:54 +0000
              Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-27 13:05 -0800
          Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-11-27 13:04 -0800
            Re: IBM system/360 ad Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2019-11-27 13:11 -1000
            Re: IBM system/360 ad Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-11-28 18:08 +0000
              Re: IBM system/360 ad J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2019-11-28 13:28 -0500
                Re: IBM system/360 ad Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2019-12-01 13:16 -0800
                Re: IBM system/360 ad Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2019-12-03 15:14 +0000
                Re: IBM system/360 ad hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2019-12-04 13:01 -0800
              Re: IBM system/360 ad Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2019-11-28 19:41 -0500

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