I remember $.25/bit, but don't recall what year that was; too low for 1960, too high for 1969.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [[email protected]] on behalf of Phil Smith III [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Convert *signed* EBCDIC to packed decimal Doug Wegscheid: >True, but in those days, core was about $1 a byte (I think, I can't >find anything to back that), renting plug compatible LCS was >$6000/megabyte/month (found an old ad), so the compactness of the >instructions also was a big plus. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1kNXpDpafajhI_HjFcr98oOKGFKuhb7_yxZfeA8BL4W0roI7R1klcX4WqJMhrCijWtqb3PLzvUizZ8yEEBWK_Z37Lw1qw7fwXUULMvV15vwtgjdyvv4K4dMQRTVfIoku2ouAPs_Ws6XNuzbEnwZJqZh5eqRvbMMAY6revZi8OjlsQqTvi-zOjCXW8A0_z_PG40gPRbHzIAYp1tj6vB-FkjjlTxzjXXCG5WCIpUvcFhgMlOgDkdUOuy9N8_bcbkx8N6bnb7Cs53Qs98voahA6UTK7EDpzddi4xKRWC234QfZQKRiv-08vQINgUNFWGp1VcDBXrdP4ezbch3Dr3RxbyqgQuR1fScoexs2Fz-yGsroXv008Q0sxU8Tg34FZRkMEQlHjS0A5zpiARRsHagYqwIoSMHMO2EVWYqOKQ8xgTsBTuxEo_oTVJ_x1dUq-FaA9y/https%3A%2F%2Fjcmit.net%2Fmemoryprice.htm seems plausible, though of course no way to know how correct it is. Definitely fascinating. the "buck a byte" is what I also remember from the 60s, FWIW. It was surely correct for at least five minutes!
