"Woz" IIgs, & Dynabyte computers...

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Thu Nov 6 13:13:10 2003

It'll take significantly more than 20 samoans to lift 8 fully-loaded IBM
RAMAC-2's all at once.

Peace... Sridhar

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:

> Hey!!!
>
> A new measure of computer size - The Samoan!
>
> PDP8 - 2 Samoans
>
> IBM Mainframe with 8 DASD = 20 Samoans (enough samoans to lift
> everything at once)
>
>
> On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> >> In which case it's far from being the first movable computer -- the
> >
> > ANY computer that has casters is "portable", and any that can be
> > winched
> > onto a trailer are "movable"
> >
> > When calling it "portable", does that require a Samoan?
> > or how many Somalians?
> > One Japanese computer company, in a picture ad demoing the
> > "portability"
> > of their computer used a well known Sumu wrestler. It may have been PC
> > magazine who pointed out that HE could demo the "portability" of a
> > Suzuki.
> >
> >
>
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