[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Pete Cosky]

That which is understood need not be mentioned.

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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Ron Van Putte
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 3:35 PM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

I almost wrote, "As an engineer, I'm seldom surprised by what  
business types don't know."  However, I decide not to write it.

Ron VP

On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Phil Spelt wrote:

> 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: Pete Cosky
>> To: 'General pattern discussion'
>> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society, Inc.
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