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echo: memories
to: JOE MACKEY
from: August Abolins
date: 2022-01-03 14:20:00
subject: Old PC`s

Hello JOE MACKEY!

** On Monday 03.01.22 - 06:10, JOE MACKEY wrote to GEORGE POPE:

 JM>    I recall wondering how in the world a little 3.5 could hold as much
 JM> information as a 5.25 then later how in the world could a thumb hold more
 JM> than a 3.5?  If this keeps up it will someday be how much information can
 JM> be held on a grain of sand.  :)

An article from March 19, 2018:

https://www.techspot.com/news/73770-ibm-world-smallest- 
computer-size-grain-salt.html

"it has the compute power of an x86 machine from the 1990s"

"The tiny computer costs under ten cents to manufacture and  
contains up to one million transistors"


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