Re: [Nolug] Hard disks

--- integral@integralsecurity.com wrote:
> Greetings from Texas,
>
> Hard drives??? How about storing information on cassette tapes?
> Or only
> having 3k of memory and not 6 meg. We are definitely spoiled
> today.
>
> The first computer I owned was a Commodore Vic-20. That was a step
> up from
> the terminal we used at school that used paper and could make a
> bell sound.
> The vic had color, and sound. I had got tired of having to reenter
> all the
> code for the programs I have written. That first tape drive cost
> $100.
> That was in early 80's dollars while I was in middle school. I did
> hate
> those dreaded out of memory error messages.
[snip]

The business computer that my grandfather's business ran on during
the 80s loaded the programs off of cassette tape, stored data files
onto cassette tape and a dual-sided 9.8MB 13" removable hard disk
drive. CDC made it, I think. The only cool thing about that junker
NCR was that it had core, and a hex keypad that let you type in the
address you wanted to jump to, if there was a power failure?

How did you know what address to jump to? Look what prompt the clerk
was at when the power died, and find that string in the assemler
listing.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Johnson" <ronjohnsonjr@yahoo.com>
> To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 2:17 AM
> Subject: [Nolug] Hard disks
>
>
> > Ok,
> >
> > Who here remembers when hard disks were measured in dollars per
> > megabyte? How about hundreds of dollars per megabyte? Joey and
> I
> > are old enough. Scott? Who else?
> >
> > Machines are so fast today, and yet, in the early 80s, IBM was
> able
> > to build a system with 1.9 MIPS & 6MB RAM that delivered
> sub-second
> > response time to 70 on-line users.

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