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<font size=3>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...<br><br>
At 02:06 PM 12/4/2010, you wrote:<br>
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<dd><font size=3>----- Original Message ----- <br>
<dd>From:</b> <a href="mailto:pcosky@comcast.net">Pete Cosky</a> <br>
<dd>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">'General
pattern discussion'</a> <br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:16 AM<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<dd>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……<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Thanks again Marty for all you do keeping the website going.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>From:</b>
<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">
nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] On Behalf Of
</b>Lightfoot<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:07 AM<br>
<dd>To:</b> 'General pattern discussion'<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>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.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Jay Marshall</i></b> <br><br>
<dd>From:</b> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
[<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] On Behalf Of
</b>Pete Cosky<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:48 AM<br>
<dd>To:</b> 'General pattern discussion'<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>I loved the Rainbow. CPM OS and dual 5 ¼ floppies in a single unit
height….it was THE machine IMHO back then.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>From:</b> nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org
[<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] On Behalf Of
</b>Phil Spelt<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:38 AM<br>
<dd>To:</b> General pattern discussion<br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>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>
<dd>At 08:22 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:<br><br>
<dd>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>
<dd>Doug<br><br>
<br><br>
<dd>---- Ron Van Putte <vanputte@cox.net> wrote: <br>
<dd>> A computer guy told me recently that he sold hard drives with
one <br>
<dd>> terrabyte of memory for over $2 million several years ago, after
I <br>
<dd>> told him I had just bought one for $69.99 plus shipping.<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> Ron VP<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> On Dec 3, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Bob Richards wrote:<br>
<dd>> <br>
<dd>> > Core memory, I bet!<br>
<dd>> ><br>
<dd>> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Phil Spelt
<chuenkan@comcast.net> wrote:<br>
<dd>> ><br>
<dd>> > Speaking of "knowing the whole thing", Ron, in
1972, already, when <br>
<dd>> > I was a college prof in Indiana, we had a relatively new
Digital <br>
<dd>> > Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-11-20 mainframe computer in the
comp <br>
<dd>> > center. A DEC guy was there service the disk drives,
and I asked <br>
<dd>> > him something about the memory modules. He didn't
know the answer, <br>
<dd>> > and when I expressed surprise, he indicated that there was
no one <br>
<dd>> > at DEC that knew any of their computers from end to
end!!! And <br>
<dd>> > that was 1972 --think how complex things have gotten by
now...<br>
<dd>> ><br>
<dd>> ><br>
<dd>> > _______________________________________________<br>
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<dd>--> There are only two types of aircraft -- fighters and
targets.<br><br>
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<dd>Phil Spelt, Past President, Knox County Radio Control Society,
Inc.<br>
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<dd>AMA--1294, Scientific Leader Member SPA--177, Board
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#800000">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>
URL:
<a href="http://www.kcrctn.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.kcrctn.com<br>
</a>AMA--1294, Scientific Leader Member SPA--177, Board
Member<br>
My URL:
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/~chuenkan/<br>
</a> (865) 435-1476 v (865) 604-0541
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