[NSRCA-discussion] website back up
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Sat Dec 4 12:49:56 AKST 2010
Incomplete...should have read "......business types don't know about business". But I too, decided against it
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Van Putte <vanputte at cox.net>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 3:35 pm
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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>>
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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
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