[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

Sat Dec 4 14:07:04 AKST 2010

Yea, Ron, good thing you didn't write it...  Write what???

At 03:35 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:
>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.
>>        URL: http://www.kcrctn.com
>>AMA--1294,  Scientific Leader Member  SPA--177, Board Member
>>       My URL: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/
>>       (865) 435-1476 v  (865) 604-0541 c
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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/
       (865) 435-1476 v  (865) 604-0541 c  
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