On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, John Francis <jo...@panix.com> wrote:
> 300 Baud? You was lucky! We only had 110 Baud Modems. And ASR-33 > terminals (the ARDS-1s and Tektronix 4010 Storage Tube displays were > upstairs in the main computer room). > Data-Pacs? Removable drives? Luxury! We had one Burroughs hard drive > (around 4MB total, I think) - around 4' in diameter, vertically mounted. > Unless you were a staff programmer you had no logged-out quota, so all > your files had to be saved on DECTape. And that was on the main system; > hard drives were too expensive to be put on satellite computers. <snip> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo&feature=related cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
