Re: Newbie question on table design.

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:17:11 -0300
Message-ID: <463a7b59$0$4059$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>

paul c wrote:

> paul c wrote:
>

>> -CELKO- wrote:
>> ....
>>
>>> Yes, but it discovered large data sets from the start since it was a
>>> scientific machine.  Ever see a data cell machine?
>>> ...
>>
>> capacity something like 400 MB in 1969, considered gigantic at the 
>> time, half-second access time, cost about CAD 250,000.  ...

>
> oops, might have been CAD 50,000, can't remember for sure, but that was
> still a lot of dough when a CAD was worth more than a USD.

In 1969, my parents bought a nice middle-class 3 bedroom home on a nice deep lot for about CAD 20,000. If I recall correctly, gasoline was about 29 cents per gallon. (And those were british gallons.) Received on Thu May 03 2007 - 19:17:11 CDT