The times they have a-changed indeed.
My first computer experience was on a VAX 780. 2 MB Ram, 550 MB hard disk. It
ran most of the Lincoln University campus - some 60 screens, probably 200-300
user accounts, each with what seemed an enormous disk quota. Phd students had
huge data files stored on it. It ran big statistics programs - SAS, Minitab,
SAAM. (SAAM was some 5 million lines of Fortran for instance). We would never
have believed a single PC could have 1000 times as much memory and 1000 times
as much disk space. We would have said "how can data files ever get so big?"
Mind you I can still fit my entire 700 person address book in a 128KB memory
organiser...
John
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