Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/19

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Subject: [Leica] SDHC
From: mark.teampope at ntlworld.com (Mark Pope)
Date: Wed Nov 19 12:28:02 2008
References: <20081119034238.CWZG8828.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>
 

Ken Carney wrote:
<snip>

> Most of our new hires have never seen a floppy disc...I have
> to 'splain.  
> 
</snip>
When I started in IT the ICL mainframe I learnt to program on had 256K 
of ferrite core memory.  The hard disks, known as EDS 60, held 60 
Megabytes of data on (I think) 8 platters that were about 15" in 
diameter. They weighed in at about 20lbs each IIRC.  Oh happy days!
-- 



Mark Pope,
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UK

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