[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

Sat Dec 4 11:29:23 AKST 2010

Yup, used those to teach business computing in 
the early '80s -- I was amazed at what business 
types didn't know about computing back then...

At 02:06 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:
>RS - TRS - 80   alias  Radio Shack TRASH80
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:pcosky at comcast.net>Pete Cosky
>To: <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>'General pattern discussion'
>Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up
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>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

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>Thanks again Marty for all you do keeping the website going.
>
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>
>From: 
><mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org>nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org 
>[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
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>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
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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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>From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org 
>[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
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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:
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>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
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>---- 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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Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society, Inc.
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