Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!mfci!rodman
From: rodman@mfci.UUCP (Paul Rodman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: In defense of the VAX
Message-ID: <668@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 15:04:12 GMT
References: <11037@tekecs.TEK.COM> <76700073@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <324@taniwha.UUCP>
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In article <324@taniwha.UUCP> paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes:
>
>Hear! hear! about that time we bought 1Mb for our Burroughs 6700. It cost
>$500,000 (I think we . It was core, Burroughs were selling the new
>semiconductor stuff for more!! It wasn't that much earlier that large chunks

Sheesh! As I recall you could have bought an entire mincomputer system
with 2Mb of memory from Prime around then.

Burroughs was obviously price gouging on memories. Very common in those
days, very hard to get away with today.
>


    Paul K. Rodman 
    rodman@mfci.uucp