[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane
Diana A. Clarion
dclarion at fnordnet.net
Thu Oct 13 19:40:21 EDT 2005
Yikes! :o) Remember the Memorex 75 Mb six-packs? I helped *move* one of those
once. Took four of us, and I crushed a ring I forgot to take off first...
DAC
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:24:42PM -0400, 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)
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+zabxuq=wiseascii.com at wplug.org
> [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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