I still remember the early 80's, on a 3031/3033 or so I think, when IBM decided to sell memory in 1MB units only. We needed 0.5 MB expansion for the next year and my manager was very angry with IBM about the unnecessary waste of money because of this new policy. So 1 MB was a substantial investment at that time.
Kees. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 01:22 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Costs of core year(?) 1980's (early) 1 meg memory for 168 $10,000.00 Ed On May 29, 2014, at 1:55 PM, zMan wrote: > I remember my father telling me that core -- REAL memory, a MAN'S > memory (yeah, yeah, sexist) -- was $1/byte. Obviously that would have > changed by the time it all went solid-state, but does anyone remember > whether this was correct or not? > -- > 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 information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
