[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Lightfoot]

Glad to see that I wasn’t the only sucker that bought a DEC Rainbow. I
couldn’t afford the HD. Can you believe that we paid over $3K for that
anchor? Of course that smooth scroll display made it worthwhile! I had a
grad school classmate in ’82 from IBM who said that the PC would never
amount to anything.

 

Jay Marshall 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cosky
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:48 AM
To: 'General pattern discussion'
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

 

I loved the Rainbow. CPM OS and dual 5 ¼ floppies in a single unit
height
.it was THE machine IMHO back then.

 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Phil Spelt
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:38 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

 

In 1983, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow for about $500, and
wondered how I would EVER fill up the 5 MB!!!  'Course, we can do a LOTmore
these days, such as Call Of Duty, etc, etc. lol...

At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:

Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB, and cost $450. Storage and RAM are crazy
cheap these days. Consider that the software used to control the Command
Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K of memory. 2 blocks of ROM (24k and
32k each) and 1 block of RAM (4k). 

Doug



---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net> wrote: 
> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one  
> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I  
> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.
> 
> Ron VP
> 
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:
> 
> > Core memory, I bet!
> >
> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when  
> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital  
> > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp  
> > center.  A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked  
> > him something about the memory modules.  He didn't know the answer,  
> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one  
> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!!  And  
> > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...
> >
> >
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