On 26 May 2011, at 16:27, Albrecht Schlosser wrote: >>> I used to support a whole programming department on 3 PDP-11's (two 11-24's >>> and an 11-73.) > > 11/24 was Unibus? I had 11/23 and 11/73 (QBus) only.
Yes, the 11-24's were IIRC, though we had QBUS machines too. We later got some 11-83's, then they were phased out and replaced with microVaxes. What always struck me as a bit odd about that transitions was that for a long time we had all these machines hooked up to dumb terminals via a rack of Decservers-200's, and the Decservers were probably more powerful than the computers they were serving terminals for... My immediate supervisor at the time was called Gordon Bell, which amused me in a geek sort of way; though I'm pretty sure it was not *that* Gordon Bell... > >>> They had a whole 1MB of RAM, and one had a 200MB Fujitsu Double-Eagle hard >>> disk (the size of a filing cabinet drawer). >>> Such mighty computing power. > > Wow, that BIG ? We used to have 512 MB RAM and 10 MB RL02 disks, later the > first "Winchester Disks" of 10/20/40 MB (emulating 1-4 RL02 disks). Yes - we weren't quite sure what to do with all that space; we had it partitioned as two 100MB chunks, because it was so scarily big... And a rack full of RL02's as well, and a cupboard full of 9-track tape reels, of course... _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
