On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Doc Farmer wrote:
Geez, what am I supposed to do with all those years of feeling
*unofficially*
old?
What kills me (figuratively, of course) is when I look at the
capacity of today's
IBM drives. A 3390-3 seems like so much when you're talking tracks
and
cyls, but it's really around 2.8 gig. Hades tintinnabulum, I've
got over a
TERABYTE of disk storage sitting right on my desk for a standard PC.
One question - how many 80 column cards would equal one 305 RAMAC?
Answers on an 80 column card, please...
Funny you should ask about Punched Cards:
In 1998, the largest theft of punched cards took place in
the Moscow region in 1998. Three years later it became
known that someone had stolen about 20 train cars of
punched cards. It is still a mystery who stole the cards,
what for and where such a large number of cards came from.
Furthermore, no one even reported the disappearance of
20 cars.
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