[dba-Tech] What got you interested in technology? IT's rich andfamous share their memories

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 18 12:50:41 CST 2011


A one MB RAM board used to cost almost 8K for a VAX. I remember being in a
meeting and we were trying to decide whether we should blow the budget on a
MB of RAM or on a new very-high capacity Alpha hard drive of 512MBs...About
the size of a small washing machine.

Jim
  

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andfamous share their memories

Hi Arthur

I'll share a part of my memory that for some unknown reason popped forward
the other day:

Do you remember the time when OS/2 was moving ahead, that a major issue to
discuss was if it would be able to launch in a machine equipped with 4 MB of
RAM?
I don't recall what made 4 MB a magic number but today, where 4 GB is
standard in main-level machines, it is hard to imagine that this parameter
could get any attention at all. 
Perhaps it was cost - I guess 1 MB of RAM at those days equals 4 GB today.
Didn't Compaq manufacture a full-length(!) add-in board with 3 MB extended
RAM? At a fortune. 

/gustav


>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 18-11-2011 14:11 >>>
Luminaries Vint Cerf, Michael Dell, Stephen Elop (Nokia), William Gibson,
Noel Sharkey (Professor of AI and Robotics at the University of Sheffield),
Richard Stallman and others reminisce about their early computing
experiences:

http://www.silicon.com/technology/hardware/2011/11/16/what-got-you-intereste
d-in-technology-its-rich-and-famous-share-their-memories-39748104/ 

-- 
Arthur
Cell: 647.710.1314

Thirty spokes converge on a hub
but it's the emptiness
that makes a wheel work
   -- from the Daodejing


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