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On Friday, 9 December 2022 08:27:18 GMT Wol wrote: |
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> On 09/12/2022 00:45, Dale wrote: |
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> > I even remember when 512KBs of ram was a big deal. I also remember |
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> > having expansion cards that would add a few MBs of ram. Jeez I'm |
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> > getting old. o_O We talk about TBs like they are nothing. My first |
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> > puter was a old Vic-20. 4Kbs of ram it had. I played music on that |
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> > thing and freaked my Dad out. ROFL |
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> I remember those things. About 16 MB per platter. I remember my work |
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> buying a 300MB drive (19 platters in a disk pack, the size of a washing |
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> machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with |
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> 256KB of ram ... |
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Latest in the willy-waving contest: in the 1970s the national grid was |
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monitored and analysed with a Ferranti Argus 500 machine with 24KB RAM and a |
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2MB disk. It was common for American visitors to believe that was just driving |
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the control engineers' displays, and where was the main computer? |
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24-bit assembler code. Those were the days - some of my very best. No concept |
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of a file or a file-system. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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