Windows Rant

[Tony Arnold]

Doug,

On 11/07/10 22:59, Douglas Pollard wrote:

> I might well be wrong, but I don't think there was hardrives in the mid
> 1970's. If there were I must have been  dumb as a stump as we used tape
> drives.

There were hard drives around in the mid 70's. I used a couple of PDP-11 
machines in 73/74, PDP-11/40 and a PDP-11/20. Each machine has 16 
kilobytes of memory. One had a fixed head hard drive with a capacity of 
256 kilobytes (yes, that's kilobytes). The other had some exchange 
cartridges whose capacity was 2.4 megabytes. These machine occupied 
several 6 foot high cabinets!

Regards,
Tony.
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