[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Zabxuq]

Data General Nova 3 handcrank with an external, dishwasher sized,
multi-platter 20Mb - that's right, a FULL 20Mb hard drive.  32K core memory,
running the "CHAMP" OS. (SPASTIC, THREETRAN and DISASSEMBLY languages)

Each time 10 customer records were added, I used to have to kick all the
data entry people off the machine to run a "MERG"; the process that moved
the records from a temporary buffer to the disk filespace - and indexed
them.

That was 1983, right after I'd become fascinated with an IBM PC (single
floppy) I'd encountered...


Joel


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[mailto:wplug-bounces+zabxuq=wiseascii.com at wplug.org]On Behalf Of Diana
A. Clarion
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:58 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane


All this talk of age-showing got me to a little reminiscing, part of that
involving the machines I've worked.  Just for the halibut, I'm wondering
what
was the first machine you folks worked.

I'll start:  HP 2116C, in 1970  (BASIC, FORTRAN, assembly language)

DAC

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