Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It took grant money for us to be able to afford 64Kb of memory for the lab's "CompuColor" computer back in the early 80's. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA http://www.400tx.com http://400tx.blogspot.com/ -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Adam Bridge Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:58 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:SD cards in M8 My first "real" computer was a DEC PDP-11/23. It had 64K(!) of RAM and a huge, I say HUGE, as in VAST 5 MB hard drive. Of course the entire operating system footprint was 4 KB, 8 KB if I elected to use the non-overlayed version. Later we had the PDP-11/70 on a chip (the J11 I think it was called) and it address 4MB of RAM that cost at least $4k. Today even small drivers take 4k and just the space lost in formatting a typical hard drive totals more than the entire disk capacity I owned in the first 10, no make it 15, years of computing. I wish I had kept the VAXstation I had which was a wonderful machine with a rock-solid OS (VAX/VMS). Ah well . . . the good ol' days. Adam _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information