Re: Newbie question on table design.
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 00:17:04 -0300
Message-ID: <463aa582$0$4044$9a566e8b_at_news.aliant.net>
paul c wrote:
>> 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.)
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> if you were on the east coast then you were better off as it was 39
> cents in upper canuckistan then (never changed from early sixties until
> Nixon devalued gold in early seventies). i called those gallons
> Imperial and still do.
I wrote imperial and changed it to british because I wasn't sure whether folks would understand the term.
> 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!
Trudeau did a heck of a lot more harm than good. In fact, I am not sure he did any good at all. I find his son entering politics kinda bewildering.
> OTOH, much has imroved when it comes to db, good for Codd even if some
> of his lingo reflects the opposition he faced.
True, and we have lots more room for improvement yet. Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 05:17:04 CEST