On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Mirko Scurk wrote: > > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us > >> greybeards play "remember when"!!! > > > >> Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!) > > > >> Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM? > > > >> Remember when Doom ran great on Linux and fvwm, with 16MB RAM and > >> et4000/W32p video card? > > > > Ha! Remember when computers meant handing over a deck of punch cards > > to feed to a Soviet-made IBM-360 EC1030 with manuals in Russian, and > > coming back the next week to learn that you forgot to start your > > comment on column 6 of the card 134, and so there was no output? > > > > manoj > > What about IBM 1130 - my first computer on University. Or, my god, when I > firs time saw MicroPDP-11! > > Its amazing how we regulary suck-seed to slip into OT! > > -- > Mirko Scurk
I remember when I got to use a machine without the regular RAM we all take for granted now; main memory was a magnetic drum with tracks of 108 29-bit words. The length of a loop was quantized to be a multiple of time for a complete drum revolution. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]