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

While in my apprenticeship we had a huge Milwaukee Automatic Milling Machine that was run by a Computer that was about 30 feet long. It was in a room behind the machine. They would start the unit up at 7 AM and by 8 AM it would be warm enough for it function. There were two of us in the Machinist Apprentice program (Frankford Arsenal) that were earmarked to work on them and keep them running. Before I could graduate out of the program the Army started to close down the Arsenal and there went my training on computers. But it picked back up 3 years later while working for the US Mint.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 5:56 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:

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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