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∂MEM Chuck Dickens$John McCarthy$IBM mass storage system∞

Dear Chuck:

	I agree with the considerations in your August 17th memo.

	The costs of expanding disk file in my letter are based on their
involving no new technology or training.  We have 6 spindles
now at the AI Lab; adding more doesn't even require notifying the users,
and since we already have six, the utilization of an additional spindle
would be high immediately.  However, if we were to acquire a mass storage
device, there would indeed be additional costs.

	Incidentally, I was aware that I might be going off half-cocked
when I wrote the memo.  My excuse was that if I didn't write it
immediately, I knew I never would.

	It would be great if enough cost savings could be found to
justify a mass storage without new markets.

.sgn
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cc: W. Miller, W. Massy, P. Suppes, T. Rindfleisch, R. Gorin, E. Shaw