[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Phil Spelt]

YEP!!  I built a whole teaching laboratory with 
DEC Rainbows, and had one at home, too.  THE original home PC in early 1980...

At 08:48 AM 12/4/2010, you wrote:
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>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
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>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up
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>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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>--> There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.
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-->There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.

Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society, Inc.
        URL: http://www.kcrctn.com
AMA--1294,  Scientific Leader Member  SPA--177, Board Member
       My URL: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/
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