Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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
Obviously a step up from the Sinclair Z-81 with the huge 16K
expansion memory module I had at one point.
On the other hand I took a 'computing' course in 1963, the first one
offered to undergraduates at the University of Alberta. Ahh.. the
agony of spending a whole evening and the better part of the night at
a punch card machine, only to be so groggy when stepping outside that
I slipped and fell and scattered all the decks into the adjacent
snowbanks.
The good old days.
Maybe not.
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