20 Feb
2003
20 Feb
'03
5:56 a.m.
John Allain wrote:
Did you take into acount the $ has dropped in value.
...1956. IBM
leased the 350 Disk File for a $35,000...
Moore's law is a pretty good predictor of many things.
$7K/Month-MegaByte in 1956 works out to $2/Month-TeraByte
today so its not too far off, if it is off at all. 14" was popular 1970-1980, so what about before
it?
And don't forget that mainframes were just always in a lerger
class.\
Lets not forget the size of cables connecting them together. :)