M Harris wrote:
On Sunday 03 June 2007 13:43, Vince L wrote:
too many oldtimer, here :-))) Punched cards, anyone? My first "official" computer related job (ca. 1970, I was 15) was computer operator on an IBM 360 mod44 (fully transistorized high speed number crunching mainframe--- with 256K of main ram!).
Another 360/44 user! I used it in a nuclear lab from 1971 -- 1976. I was officially an electronics technician going to school, but often helped physicists optimize their data acquisition and reduction code.
...card hopper. We eventually installed drive packs... with platters the size of a large cake pan... and the drive units were the size of a washing machine.
Yeah, we had those 6-platter, 10-surface 14" packs, too. It was scary the first few times hearing the "clunk-clunk" as the heads did their seeks. Am I remembering correctly that those held an ample 10MB total? :-) John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org