K.S. Bhaskar on 13 Mar 2014 14:56:35 -0700


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


And mine was an IBM 1620 Model 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620).  I also spent a year working on a PDP-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1), serial number 45, IIRC.

Regards
-- Bhaskar


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org> wrote:
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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