At 04:26 PM 2/26/2002, Bill wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:22:17 -0500 "Stephen C. Daukas" <stephen@daukas.com> wrote:
At 03:52 PM 2/26/2002, you wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 08:24:05 -0500 Gregory Avedissian <avedis@ma.ultranet.com> wrote:
Thanks, guys. Yeah, I remember $1/MB sounding good. I also remember being able to fit a whole program into 1MB. Ah, those were the days...
kids these days! when i was your age, the top-of-the-line system had 16k RAM and four-color graphics!! And we were GRATEFUL! ;)
Oh boy - here we go!
"...up hill, both ways..." ;-)
Steve
P.S. - should I talk about using paper tape?
<evil grin> i thought that would get a rise from those that are older than me... <g>
Don't know if I am older than you, but I've used some ancient stuff!
(for the record, the oldest system i worked on regularly was a DEC PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E... we used Holerith cards and mag tape for everything except programming [had dumb terminals for that], had disc packs, and one 8" floppy drive...)
My oldest was a "ruggedized" PDP-11/20 used by the US Navy (SSN 688 class subs). Other than that, I have worked on "newer" stuff that we designed for the Military, but mag tape was still a requirement - the ocean can get rough enough that you have to have a backup media for those days you just can't risk a head-crash! Steve