Just came across this in Wikipedia:
Above: a microSDHC card that stores about 8 billion bytes. Below: magnetic-core memory, used until the 1970s, that stores eight bytes using 64 cores.
When I worked for IBM, before driving 'planes, we had boxes of ferrite core RAM lying around the place.
People like Jack Tramiel lived in 'interesting times' and not 'interesting amusing' either
I was speaking to a guy in Australia who was, as a child during WW2, shunted around Europe. I didn't ask if he was a Jew; I'm guessing not as he was probably too young to work and he wouldn't have survived.