IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, JimD wrote:
>
> > >Or you can just wait about 2-3 years until the next generation
> > >microprocessors surpass it in power for only $1,200.
> > >
> > Not for a while, Can you get a machine with  100Gb of ram  and  40
> > terabyte of storage for $1200, even in  ten years ( maybe)? You've been
> > reading too many IEEE spectrum mags again Selam.
>
>Actually, 10 years from now we'll probably have machines with 100Tb of RAM
>and 40Pb (petabytes) of storage!

Revenge is sweet... ;^> My turn to zing you, Sellam!

Lowercase b is bits, uppercase B is Bytes; so it'd be 100TB RAM and 40PB 
drive space...

... and we could finally have Exabyte tape drives that store an Exabyte!
;-)

>And Windows will STILL run slow!!

Oh, I dunno -- by then Windows 3.1 might finally run acceptably...
;-)

Laterz,
"Merch"
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