[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

[Peter Humphrey]

On Friday, 9 December 2022 10:34:00 GMT I wrote:

> in the 1970s the national grid was monitored and analysed with a Ferranti
> Argus 500 machine with 24KB RAM and a 2MB disk. It was common for
> American visitors to believe that was just driving the control engineers'
> displays, and where was the main computer?

Er... There was no RAM in those days, not of the type we know today. In fact 
it was 2-microsecond core store. Each tiny ferromagnetic toroid was threaded 
with one X wire, one Y wire and (I think it was) a sync pulse wire. A 
remarkable labour of love to build such a thing.

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Regards,
Peter.