They missed all the fun didn't they? Like writing to, and reading from, specific sectors of a floppy disk as this was the only way of running a database with a couple of thousand names and addresses with a 32K machine.
Perhaps that's why us ancients are quite happy without a fully automatic system :-) Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *New Blog* Protect Your PC View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Fw: Legacy Users Groups in UK ?!!?Experienced Legacy > Users in UK ?? > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:17:19 +0000 > > Oh you poor young things! The first mainframe I worked on in 1966 only had > 16k words, then we got this new fangled minicomputer (it still filled a > room) with 24k. Then along came these toy machines that just couldn't catch > on, so I thought - I only threw away my old IBM PC XT (originally 64k then > expanded to a whopping 640k) a couple of months ago as were moving house. > > "I remember talk about the coding in 0 & 1"! - it wasn't that long ago!!! > Even in the 80s some machines still had front panel code/data entry switches > - up for 1 and down for 0. > > Jack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toni Allen > Sent: 12 December 2007 14:32 > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Fw: Legacy Users Groups in UK ?!!?Experienced Legacy > Users in UK ?? > > Ron and Tim ... > > Golly, this talk makes me feel so young! And I am not! > I remember talk about the coding in 0 & 1, but my start > was at 128 K and when we went to 256 K I was elated at the > doubling of size! > Happy memories > Toni in Michigan, USA > _________________________________________________________________ Free games, great prizes - get gaming at Gamesbox. http://www.searchgamesbox.com Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
