6 Nov
2003
6 Nov
'03
5:13 a.m.
It'll take significantly more than 20 samoans to lift 8 fully-loaded IBM
RAMAC-2's all at once.
Peace... Sridhar
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
Hey!!!
A new measure of computer size - The Samoan!
PDP8 - 2 Samoans
IBM Mainframe with 8 DASD = 20 Samoans (enough samoans to lift
everything at once)
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
In which
case it's far from being the first movable computer -- the
ANY computer that has casters is "portable", and any that can be
winched
onto a trailer are "movable"
When calling it "portable", does that require a Samoan?
or how many Somalians?
One Japanese computer company, in a picture ad demoing the
"portability"
of their computer used a well known Sumu wrestler. It may have been PC
magazine who pointed out that HE could demo the "portability" of a
Suzuki.