<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">You are showing your age. You could see the "bits".<br><br>Bob Kane<br>
getterflash@yahoo.com<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <i><bob@toprudder.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com><br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br>To: "General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 6:27 PM<br><br><div id="yiv662000446"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Core memory, I bet!<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt <i><chuenkan@comcast.net></i></b> wrote:<br>
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<div id="yiv662000446yiv2132554780"><font size="3">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 </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><b>no one</b></font><font size="3"> at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to end!!! And that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by now...<br><br></font></div>
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