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<font size=3>Yea, Ron, good thing you didn't write it... Write
what???<br><br>
At 03:35 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I almost wrote, "As an
engineer, I'm seldom surprised by what <br>
business types don't know." However, I decide not to write
it.<br><br>
Ron VP<br><br>
On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Phil Spelt wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Yup, used those to teach
business computing in the early '80s -- I <br>
was amazed at what business types didn't know about computing back
<br>
then...<br><br>
At 02:06 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">RS - TRS - 80
alias Radio Shack TRASH80<br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
From: Pete Cosky<br>
To: 'General pattern discussion'<br>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:16 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
I went from that to an Apple IIe to an IBM clone. TONS of money
<br>
for very little computing power in retrospect, but it paved the
<br>
way for things like hackers……<br><br>
<br><br>
Thanks again Marty for all you do keeping the website going.<br><br>
<br><br>
From: nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [
<a href="mailto:nsrca" eudora="autourl">mailto:nsrca</a>-
discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Lightfoot<br>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:07 AM<br>
To: 'General pattern discussion'<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<br><br>
Glad to see that I wasn’t the only sucker that bought a DEC <br>
Rainbow. I couldn’t afford the HD. Can you believe that we paid
<br>
over $3K for that anchor? Of course that smooth scroll display
<br>
made it worthwhile! I had a grad school classmate in ’82 from IBM
<br>
who said that the PC would never amount to anything.<br><br>
<br><br>
Jay Marshall<br><br>
From: nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [
<a href="mailto:nsrca" eudora="autourl">mailto:nsrca</a>-
discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cosky<br>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:48 AM<br>
To: 'General pattern discussion'<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<br><br>
I loved the Rainbow. CPM OS and dual 5 ¼ floppies in a single unit
<br>
height….it was THE machine IMHO back then.<br><br>
<br><br>
From: nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org [
<a href="mailto:nsrca" eudora="autourl">mailto:nsrca</a>-
discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Phil Spelt<br>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:38 AM<br>
To: General pattern discussion<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<br><br>
In 1983, I bought a 5MB hard drive for my DEC Rainbow for about
<br>
$500, and wondered how I would EVER fill up the 5 MB!!!
'Course, <br>
we can do a LOTmore these days, such as Call Of Duty, etc, etc.
<br>
lol...<br><br>
At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:<br><br>
Yep. My 1st hard drive was 10MB, and cost $450. Storage and RAM
<br>
are crazy cheap these days. Consider that the software used to
<br>
control the Command Module on the Apollo missions ran in 60K of
<br>
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, <br>
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 <br>
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>
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There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and targets.<br><br>
</i></b></font><font size=3>Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio
Control Society, Inc.<br>
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http://www.kcrctn.com<br>
</a>AMA--1294, Scientific Leader Member SPA--177, Board
Member<br>
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