> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Chet Gardiner > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 1:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] A 5MB hard disk in 1956 > > Ramac also covered such idiosyncratic devices as datacell too. > > I never saw a hard disk drive until the mid-70's. I worked on a > datapoint machine (in Snobol) that had 80M of removable and 8" floppy > drive. 6 terminals. A nice little "PC" to play with. "Datapoint", never thought I'd hear that name again. I programmed billing input screens for one. The program was on a tape cassette, the data went on another tape cassette, which was read into a Burroughs B1726 -- with it's tape cassette. Sort of a glorified keypunch machine with about 1K memory for my so called program. That must have been about 1972/1973. Scott
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