Quite interesting On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Linda, > > This development is simply amazing........as a dinosaur of the original 80 > column card age ...things have really changed, big time > > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 1:42 AM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi zMan, > > > > > > > > Ah, well, whatz a couple of typpos among firends? :) > > > > > > Linda > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "zMan" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 9:13:24 PM > > Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Linda Mooney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi John and Ed, > >> > >> Yowsers! > >> > >> That's really tiny! Just in my career - The first machine I was paid > to work with was a 4341 with 8MB and 8 channels. My IPhone has 32MB. The > possibilities of 2.5 Petabytes is, well, an awful lot. I can't help but > wonder what some of the early computing pioneers would think of this. > > > > I suspect your iPhone has 32GB, not MB... > > > > And let's not start swapping "You had 8MB? We had 5 bytes...and we > > LOVED it!" stories, eh? > > > > Related, however: this could make a reality something I read a while > > ago suggestion that memory would soon be cheap enough that we could > > have HD video of our surroundings recording constantly. This > > could/would change things a fair bit, both good and bad. > > -- > > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
