On 2020-04-30 01:56 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
El Fontanero via talk wrote:
<In Palin's voice> Why, we'd 'a given our eye teeth for PCMCIA! In*my*
day...
Back in the day a REAL card went 9 Edge First, and you'd best remember to
dump out the chad hopper after punching your program.
I think I still have a FORTRAN deck I did back when.
Here is a photo of a core memory plane that I have. It's 4K bits and
came from a Collins B8500 computer. There were 32 of these stacked in a
module and 4 modules in the memory chassis, for a total of 64 KB.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1F0K1vDzT0HjrBDKySpQ8m91TPw2UDCsS
[3] formats were never quite the same; who else remembers the story of
how Apple ][ floppies were written and read based on 6502 clock cycles of
the I/O loop
I recall that it wasn't compatible with anything else.
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