On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Clem Clarke
<[email protected]>wrote:

> When the first IBM 65 was wheeled into Shell Oil Melbourne, I think it had
> 256K of memory. And I believe it did cost a million or so.  Of course, it
> was made from core memory with real wires. Very expensive to thread those
> wires, I suspect!!!
>

Done by Mexican peasants, paid pennies...but yeah. I suspect shipping it
may have cost more than making it at the time.
-- 
zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

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