On 12/5/05, michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
> Steven Buehler wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:49:15 -0500, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Neat! I had a South African programmer (I lived in Africa for three
> >> years) who
> >> was the reigning chess champ. He loved Forth and got me started with
> >> it. That
> >> was back when CPM was still in use... Oh, memories of a awesome
> >> continent.
> >>
> >> They released a 40M hard drive back then. Days of super computing! : )
> >> I had the first terminal which had something like 60 columns and 8
> >> rows or
> >> something. It was almost as fast as a punchcard machine, but did not
> >> quite
> >> have the capacity. Well, give or take a lie or two.
> >
> >
> > Ah, you remind me of when I was trying to get a 10 MB hard disk for my
> > old IBM PS/2 x286 system. RLL interface, $600.
> >
> > SWB
>
>
> I would have said, "TEN MB?!?!?! You'll NEVER use that much space!!!"
DEC PDP 8 with a whopping 4K of CORE? then they gave us 4K!! The PDP
10 HD was the size of a washing machine and it was only 5M.... Ahh those
were the days... Terminal was a Teletype model 33, and if you where real high
falutin, you had a M35 or better a M35ASR, but if your butt was gold plated
they gave you a dec writer that could print at 30 cps... And you MIGHT have
a CRT to work on too. Or you got a M38ASR that could print uppers and lowers
in the same vien as the DEC writer, only it was quite noisy.
-- Chuck Hast To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal."----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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