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Old 30th Dec 2012, 14:58
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Basil
 
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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.

Last edited by Basil; 30th Dec 2012 at 15:05. Reason: To mention the man we are remembering.
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