Ramon Gandia wrote:
> Joseph S. Gardner wrote:
>
> > I used to have an old Teletype with a paper tape reader in the basement
> > (probably still have some old paper on a roll laying around for it). My father
> > kept tryin' to teach me basic over an blazin' sub-300 baud modem if memory
> > serves me (it's been a while).
>
> My first microcomputer was an Altair, with an ASR-33 and KSU-33
> (teletype with paper punch and paper reader). It ran at
> 110 bps over a 20 ma serial interface. Later on I upgraded
> it to an Ann Arbor video terminal (upper case only) at 9600 bps.
> <snip>
>
> The hard drives in those days, late 70's, were 14" monsters
> the size of a washing machine and used 1 horsepower motor,
> about 1 kilowatt of electricity. Large and noisy, but they
> were reliable too. I never put any accounting on them, just
> played with the hardware. No longer have those. I bet those
> 5 MB drives never lost anyone's data either.
>
> --
> Ramon Gandia --- Sysadmin --- http://www.nook.net
> 285 West 1st Avenue ISP for Western Alaska
> P.O. Box 970 tel. 907-443-7575
> Nome, Alaska 99762 fax. 907-443-2487
> =======================================================
Never lost any data until someone dropped a platter full of disks, 8-). Seen one or
two system people lose their job for that one.
--
Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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Linux is like a wigwam...
No windows, no gates.
Apache inside
Registered linux user #1696600
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