Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

[Ed Roper <ed.roper@golevelone.com>]

That's awesome. I love computer nostalgia. I have a technical book I found from the 50's that talks about the basics of vacuum tubed based computers. I should bring it to a PLUG meeting sometime.

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From: plug [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Bill Patterson
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] How to Archive Data for 20 Years?

Oh, you youngsters...here is (a computer that is the same model as) my first computer... http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/LGP-30-VS-Flash-.jpg
...and my first mainframe... 
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/case1107.html

Bill

On 3/12/2014 4:24 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:56 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:
>> On 03/12/2014 09:44 AM, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
>>> Speaking of a five meg harddrive: I had to laugh several years ago 
>>> when I first boosted the RAM in my workstation to 4 Gig.
>>
>> Let me date myself a little.....  I remember taking the RAM of my BBS 
>> up to 1M.
>>
>> Now where did I put my cane?
> Hey, I remember working on a PC that actually used hardware-level EMS
> - not the virtualized compatibility stuff.  A utility could be used to 
> set up a disk cache in EMS if you didn't need it for applications 
> (since most applications didn't know anything about it), and I think 
> the board also had a RTC - you had to run a utility to sync the system 
> clock to it.  No worries about replacing the CMOS battery on the 
> original PC since there wasn't one...
>
> Rich
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