My first computer was an IBM 1130. I think it had 16 k of memory and it took up a whole room.
colin.fletcher wrote: > > > I was n heaven when I bumped my Tandy 100 to 32K from the stock 28K > > 300 baud modem too as well as gobs of cassette tape storage. > > Had my first car phone around that time too - couldn't use it many places > but it was cool to have, > > Used a number of programmable HP computers too - I guess they had way more > computing power than the Gemini stuff. > > I should of thought of duct taping my HP41CX (still use it) to the Motorola > brick thing I had at the time - almost a SmartPhone. > > _____ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf > Of cobun7 > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:03 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [Treo] Re: Comparative computing > > That room is still viewed as part of the NASA tour. > I started on a Sinclair 2000 with 2k of RAM. I did grades on it with a > tape recorder that saved files. I couldnt understand what I would use > 8k for but I went for it anyway. Always a sucker for useless memory! > > I was told that a 133Mhz computer was 10 times faster than what was in > a Mercury capsule. > > Nick > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com> com, "Betsy > Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Absolutely. The Gemini computers had 4k ram... nice history here: > > http://www.hq. > <http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html > <http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html>> > nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/contents.html > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
