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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; vannrox; Vermont Lt
"You broke it...Now your Lotus 123 won’t work."
There should be a statue for VisiCalc/Lotus 123.

"What if" calculations through pages and pages of numbers made the Mac/PC industry and now we have IBM mainframes on our phones.

Recently saw a dated picture of an IBM storage unit with 5 megabytes capacity on a forklift being delivered. Cost unknown but for perspective one picture on your phone or one song would max it out.

;-)

34 posted on 04/10/2019 8:53:33 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54
Recently saw a dated picture of an IBM storage unit with 5 megabytes capacity on a forklift being delivered. Cost unknown but for perspective one picture on your phone or one song would max it out.

Was it this?

One interesting statistic about data sizes, IMO is the fact that the Bible is just about 5 MB of ASCII text uncompressed. It makes the amount of data you are talking about something that is more easy to relate to.

42 posted on 04/10/2019 11:49:35 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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