On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
> I remember working on a machine with 4 k memory; but this was a main-frame
> (IBM 1620) using vacum tubes; input and output by punched cards, and
> running Fortran II;
> Must have been in '68 or '69.
>
> This was the "obsolete" machine us students were allowed to play with; for
> serious computing, there was another mainframe, with a hard disk of, IIRC,
> 4 Mb capacity; memory was 96 kb, raised to 128 kb around 1970.
>
> And we were told we were priviledged, because our university had one of the
> most powerful computers in the education system at the time !
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron the Frog, getting old on the banks of the Paraguay River.
>
Umm... we just got to make stacks of Fortran punch cards which were collected
and returned a day later with the results, if any.
First machine I actually programmed was a Olivetti Programma 101, 11 memory
registers, 110 program steps, output printed on paper cash-register tape and
cost thousands. First program I wrote got into an endless loop and it sat there
spewing tape and wouldn't stop. Only way I could stop it was to switch it off
at the wall. I was paranoid that I'd wrecked it (but of course I hadn't).
Chris
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