Windows Rant

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On Jul 11, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Tony Arnold  
<tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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Yes!  I remember writing my first program using BASIC on a PDP/11-780  
around 1975.  We had to share this computer with several other school  
districts over a phone line with a 300 baud modem and the terminal had  
no screen whatsoever - it spewed tons of paper anytime there was any  
sort of I/O going on....

LOL,
A. Jorge Garcia
Applied Math & CS
Baldwin SHS & Nassau CC
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