> From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think I beat you all here: I started learning computers and > programming in 68. If I remember well, it was on an IBM 1620 or so. > Then I moved to a CDC 3300 and wrote my first Fortran program > to find all solutions of the "8 queens on a chess board". > Starting in 70 I worked on a CDC 1700 and we designed the > first computer film animation system at the University of Montreal. > I remember this computer had 56k memory (16 bits !) and no > hardware floating point. > (Though some programmers who were still sucking their Pablum > at that time are claiming nowadays that they are "re-using > code" ;-)) The clock was rated at about 0,7 Mhz. We had two > hard disks, each one as big as a washing machine and > containing about 4 Meg. > I remember also than a 4k memory module was about 1 cu.f. and > cost about $4000 to rent BY MONTH! ;-) > > The computer I'm writing this message is about 4300 times > faster, has about 10000 times more memory, has about 15000 > times more disk space and needs 800 times less space.
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