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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I once went our waterskiing with a friend of a
friend in the summer of 1963.. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>This guy worked for J.P.L. (Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, a division of Cal Tech) and was tasked with helping "invent" a
computer ordered by the U.S. Navy. He said that they were baffled because
the computer was to store "ten megabits of information." He went on to
explain to this dumbhead (me): "That's TEN MILLION BITS! Who would
ever need to store TEN million bits of information?"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Who indeed? My first hard drive, ca. 1988,
was 20 megabits, and was going obsolete almost by the hour.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bill Glaze</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=lightfoot@sc.rr.com href="mailto:lightfoot@sc.rr.com">Lightfoot</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">'General pattern
discussion'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:07
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website
back up</DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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>
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Marshall</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </SPAN><SPAN
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href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org">nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</A>
[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>
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">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>
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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>
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class=MsoNormal>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 style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in" class=MsoNormal>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>> >
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<P style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><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>
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