when I started working in 68, the company I worked for had an IBM model 30 with 32K of memory, card readers and all, tapes, not sure about disk drives, but guys preceding me had written the mortgage program for it in COBOL I believe, on punched cards no less. long time ago, hard to believe the progess in the last many years, still it was an awesome and scary night when we finally decommisioned the card reader a lot of years later!
pcs, small radios, cell phones, screens, microwaves, none of that was dreamt of yet. most of what we take for granted today and use every day did not exist even 30 years ago. al ve3gam Interesting info Dave. The computer on the 1970s Voyager space probe had a whopping 68K of memory total! And that was multitasking. Source: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html 73 Darrell AB2E ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
