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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1F497D'>Jay Marshall</span></i></b><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pete Cosky<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:48 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'General pattern discussion'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I loved the Rainbow. CPM OS and dual 5 ¼ floppies in a single unit height….it was THE machine IMHO back then.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Phil Spelt<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:38 AM<br><b>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>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...<br><br>At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>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). <br><br>Doug<br><br><br><br>---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net> wrote: <br>> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with one <br>> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after I <br>> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.<br>> <br>> Ron VP<br>> <br>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:<br>> <br>> > Core memory, I bet!<br>> ><br>> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <chuenkan@comcast.net> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in 1972, already, when <br>> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new Digital <br>> > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the comp <br>> > center. A DEC guy was there service the disk drives, and I asked <br>> > him something about the memory modules. He didn't know the answer, <br>> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was no one <br>> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!! And <br>> > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>> > NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>> > <a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>> NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br><a href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</a><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><i>--></i></b><b><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:maroon'> There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.<br><br></span></i></b>Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society, Inc.<br> URL: <a href="http://www.kcrctn.com/">http://www.kcrctn.com<br></a>AMA--1294, Scientific Leader Member SPA--177, Board Member<br> My URL: <a href="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/">http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/<br></a> (865) 435-1476 v (865) 604-0541 c <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>