[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Chris Ott]

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

That machine was already an antique in 1983. Our S/230 had 768K of 
semiconductor memory and our two washing-machine-sized hard drives held 
around 250Mb each, if I remember correctly. We replaced it with the 
MV/10000 (which had 4Mb of memory and a 32-bit CPU) in 1984. It cost 
about $100K, so even the S/230 had to be pretty old, to justify that 
kind of expenditure.

Chris