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April 2001, Week 4

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Peter Livingwater <[log in to unmask]>
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Peter Livingwater <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:30:57 -0500
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"Wirt Atmar" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> I've mentioned before that the first memory I bought from HP was in 1969
for
> our HP2116C. 8K was the most we could afford. That memory was priced at
> $1,000 per kilobyte -- or $1 million dollars/megabyte!
>
> But to add insult to injury, that was in 1969 dollars, which would have
made
> it perhaps $8 million dollars/megabyte in today's money.

But, at that time, only the 21MX series is one of 16 bit single board
computer
can be utilized for FFT (Spectrum analyzer and Gas tomoghaphics)..

Wirt, back then, you got a top of the computing gear...
your nanosecond world is worth than money, I think ;-)

Ex-21MX microcode expert
Peter Chong
http://www.ezxmlwizard.com

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