Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/05/05 16:31

"bmcswain" wrote ...
>>>1620
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1620.jpg
>
> What???? You're old!!!!
>
> Grinning, Running, and Ducking!!!!

Hey! We didn't have that silly paper-tape thing in your picture.
We had hard drives. With removable disc-packs! Each drive
was as big as a washing machine and held a whopping 10Mb.
I built an interface to connect a printer to it, so that console
typewriter was only used to operate it. The computer was old
when I had to maintain it in the 1970s, but it was all they could
afford.
My optical mouse likely has more computing power than that
whole computer. :-)

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