Re: Apple Computer 30th Birthday |
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T (nospam.kd1s@cox.nospam.net) Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:07:52 -0400
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In article <telecom25.130.7@telecom-digest.org>, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com says:
>> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Lisa, we _need_ a good article on
> Yes, I'm trying to put something together in time for the annivesary.
> In short:
> In the early 1950s Tom Watson Jr, now president of IBM, wanted to
> IBM recognized it needed a random access memory instead of just tape.
> It was announced as a product in Sept 1956. For such a momentus
> The earliest disk drive held only 5 meg--5 million characters. Then
> It some years to get the cost down and space up, and then disks was
> The IBM history web page, on their site, has more information.
Wow -- and I'm all depressed that my new laptop has only 512MB of RAM and |
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