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Cogito Ergo Sum |
Spent years programming in assembler on 16k Texas Instrument 9900 single board computers. Codus titus for sure. | |||
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No double standards |
First kilobyte, then megabyte, then gigabyte, then terabyte, then petabyte?? "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944 | |||
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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. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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I have lived the greatest adventure |
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. Phone's ringing, Dude. | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
I love to think of the piles of money I saved by not buying computers from 1975 to 1990. | |||
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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
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 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!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
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!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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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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Muzzle flash aficionado |
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. flashguyt Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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IBM had me up there for a job interview in summer of 1968. Poughkeepsie, East Fishkill, Hopewell Junction...very pretty country back then. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "And it's time that particularly, some of our corporations learned, that when you get in bed with government, you're going to get more than a good night's sleep." - Ronald Reagan | |||
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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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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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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
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!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Yeah, I resemble that! 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!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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