On Sunday 08 June 2003 06:29 pm, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > >spent some time with 8-32kb PDP-11-style > > >computer-like appliences, and it was fun > > > > Back in the days of real computers. > > I have the original KIM-1 manuals. But those are only old in terms of the > PC. I am probably the only one here to have actually seen an old drum > memory (albiet one sitting in storage in Room 100), or a mercury delay > line.
Drum memories, such modernities!!! How about coil-wound DRAMs, from days when computers computed and not stored?? First non-personal-computer I used in 81/82, had drum memories still operating as virtual memory. Those were the days... Niclas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
