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Old 02-16-2009, 10:29 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Sailchaser View Post
when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

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