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" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
