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posted August 01, 2017 11:29 AMHide Post
Spent years programming in assembler on 16k Texas Instrument 9900 single board computers. Codus titus for sure.
 
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posted August 01, 2017 11:54 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by gearhounds:
Now you can walk around with a phone in your pocket with 256gb on board; same with a flash drive, even smaller than its namesake, the thumb drive.


First kilobyte, then megabyte, then gigabyte, then terabyte, then petabyte??




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posted August 01, 2017 02:20 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
quote:
Originally posted by gearhounds:
Now you can walk around with a phone in your pocket with 256gb on board; same with a flash drive, even smaller than its namesake, the thumb drive.


First kilobyte, then megabyte, then gigabyte, then terabyte, then petabyte??


I just found a micro-sd card online with 512gb, and flash drives with 2 Tb. I'm thoroughly amazed by so much memory in such a tiny package.




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posted September 30, 2017 02:44 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Years ago at U of Oregon, I took my punch cards to a building with a 350 or 360 something computer inside. Next day I got that greenish multi-fold paper back hoping it did not have a "you dummy" on it.

My dad used to have to send boxes of punch cards from Nashville to Chicago to have them compiled. He would receive a report back showing any errors.

This week I saw a used 42 terabyte SAN available for $15,000.




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posted September 30, 2017 04:23 PMHide Post
I love to think of the piles of money I saved by not buying computers from 1975 to 1990.
 
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posted September 30, 2017 05:44 PMHide Post
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Originally posted by odin:
Elk - Had the same experience. A 500MB disc was about that size. LMAO at how things progressed. If only our kids knew what we know about old computers!


My first management job at IBM was in the "classified" development lab/plant in Poughkeepsie. Newest tech stuff anywhere, and it came in frames that weighed up to 1200 pounds each. All on a raised floor so cables could be run between the frames. Banks of disk drives, banks of tape drives. IIRC, the average cost of a mainframe system back then was about 9 million bucks.


Elk

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posted September 30, 2017 05:48 PMHide Post
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What was MSRP on that IBM drive ? 10s of thousands?$$. Only big companies could probly afford that. And that 3TB drive ? I can get one at Costco for what $100? Over there next to a case of TP and. $1.50 hotdog and soda


I put a 4 terabyte drive on my PC about a year ago to provide back up space. AIR, I paid 70 bucks. Not counting the $1.50 hot dog.


Elk

There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville

FBHO!!!



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posted September 30, 2017 06:27 PMHide Post
The thing that I think is sometimes lost when you see things like this is that we never get to HERE, without being THERE. The sentiment often seems to be that everything now is so much better, and while that's true, that thing was likely more analogous to a data farm today than the iPhone that everybody is likely to compare it to.
 
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posted September 30, 2017 06:37 PMHide Post
My first experience with a computer was in my final semester of college (1959)--I took a programming class that worked with an IBM 650 computer. It was about the size of 3 large refrigerators and used a rotating magnetic drum for storage--it had 2000 words of 10 decimal digits each (its logic was in decimal arithmetic). There was a card reader, and card punch, and a line printer attached to it for I/O.

In 1962 I was trained on and worked with the big USAF SAGE computer. It had 4 big column tape drives and about 100,000 words (32 bits) of rotating drum storage; RAM was ferrite core memory totaling 69632 words (278,528 bytes)--we'd call it 272MB.

In 1965-1967 I worked with systems including a CDC 1600 computer.

In 1968 while working toward a MSIE degree, I worked with a Honeywell 200 and an IBM 360 Model 44.

And in 1975 I learned to program in COBOL on the big WWMCCS military computers (big Honeywell 6080 machines).

In 1980 I retired and went to work for Texas Instruments Incorporated, and they used a lot of big IBM 370 systems.

IBM systems typically used 32-bit words and coded characters in EBCDIC.

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posted September 30, 2017 09:51 PMHide Post
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My first management job at IBM was in the "classified" development lab/plant in Poughkeepsie.

IBM had me up there for a job interview in summer of 1968. Poughkeepsie, East Fishkill, Hopewell Junction...very pretty country back then.


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posted October 01, 2017 12:59 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
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Originally posted by odin:
Elk - Had the same experience. A 500MB disc was about that size. LMAO at how things progressed. If only our kids knew what we know about old computers!


My first management job at IBM was in the "classified" development lab/plant in Poughkeepsie. Newest tech stuff anywhere, and it came in frames that weighed up to 1200 pounds each. All on a raised floor so cables could be run between the frames. Banks of disk drives, banks of tape drives. IIRC, the average cost of a mainframe system back then was about 9 million bucks.

My grandfather worked at IBM back then. Pretty sure in Poughkeepsie. His name was Warren Eugene Reese. Just curious if you knew him.
 
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posted October 01, 2017 08:26 AMHide Post
Earliest drives I ever worked on were IBM 2314s, LOL I remember an account with 3330's, Operator had a data check and kept moving the disk pack to the next drive causing head crashes on all of them, yeesh what a mess/pain in the butt to fix,clean that up.
 
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posted October 01, 2017 09:53 AMHide Post
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quote:
Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
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Originally posted by odin:
Elk - Had the same experience. A 500MB disc was about that size. LMAO at how things progressed. If only our kids knew what we know about old computers!


My first management job at IBM was in the "classified" development lab/plant in Poughkeepsie. Newest tech stuff anywhere, and it came in frames that weighed up to 1200 pounds each. All on a raised floor so cables could be run between the frames. Banks of disk drives, banks of tape drives. IIRC, the average cost of a mainframe system back then was about 9 million bucks.

My grandfather worked at IBM back then. Pretty sure in Poughkeepsie. His name was Warren Eugene Reese. Just curious if you knew him.


Do not recall the name, but there were 16,000 people working in the plant and lab.


Elk

There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville

FBHO!!!



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posted October 01, 2017 09:57 AMHide Post
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Originally posted by valkyrie1:
Earliest drives I ever worked on were IBM 2314s, LOL I remember an account with 3330's, Operator had a data check and kept moving the disk pack to the next drive causing head crashes on all of them, yeesh what a mess/pain in the butt to fix,clean that up.


Yeah, I resemble that! Big Grin

Had an idiot programmer pull the same shit at the local IBM center in D.C.

Ass hole kept moving a crashed disk pack from drive to drive until there were no more working.

AIR, it took us about a week to get things back up and running. And that was working 24/7! We had 2 teams assigned, 12 hour shifts. Never got so damned tired and disgusted as pulling all that aluminum wool and red oxide shit out of disk drives.


Elk

There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour)

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. "
-Thomas Jefferson

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville

FBHO!!!



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