Re: Newbie question on table design.
From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 01:02:38 GMT
Message-ID: <OCv_h.156894$DE1.72808_at_pd7urf2no>
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> In 1969, my parents bought a nice middle-class 3 bedroom home on a nice
> deep lot for about CAD 20,000. If I recall correctly, gasoline was about
> 29 cents per gallon. (And those were british gallons.)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 01:02:38 GMT
Message-ID: <OCv_h.156894$DE1.72808_at_pd7urf2no>
Bob Badour wrote:
> paul c wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.)
Canucks still obsessed with Nixon, no idea why, whereas still don't understand people worship Trudeau's memory, he accelerated the admittedly inevitable running of the country into the ground. That was when a buck was a buck, men were men and so were the women. Sorry, off-topic again!
p Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 03:02:38 CEST