[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Pete Cosky]

I went from that to an Apple IIe to an IBM clone. TONS of money for very
little computing power in retrospect, but it paved the way for things like
hackers



 

Thanks again Marty for all you do keeping the website going.

 

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Lightfoot
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:07 AM
To: 'General pattern discussion'
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

 

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 

From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[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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