On Monday 05 December 2005 00:03, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 12/5/05, michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net> wrote:
> > 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.
Yes, nice multiplatter disks! And you're right those were washing machine
size. Core ring memory... I think we're a tad beyond those today.
4K. Hmm I guess I was not spoiled, I had to pay for my 2nd 4K. Then a bit
later Apple came out with a machine that had 64K. Whew!
Those were fast & noisy days! Christ, I had forgoten about daisy wheel
printers. Of course, somehow I hear teletype noise on movies when messages
pop up on monitors. Muct be some high tech "manual" monitors : )
--Steve Szmidt
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