Started in 1984 as a Computer Operator on a Prime 750 running Primos 18.? and Information 5.4. Three loud line printers and a big "band" printer. Two reel to reels for backups, which took 18 reels for a Full off of four 300MB washtub drives. Carrying them, 9 on an arm to our offsite location was always a treat.
2-part Decollator, always efficient when you have a few boxes of 4-part carbon reports. And a teletype style console that ate more paper than it printed. Gary P. Canedy Senior Database Analyst ProMutual Group (617) 757-6775 From: "Don P. Nagai" <[email protected]> To: "'U2 Users List'" <[email protected]> Date: 02/07/2011 11:43 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs Sent by: [email protected] I started on Microdata systems back in 1982. Same big 'ol "washtub" drives, 1/2" reel tapes and Interrupt-Reset-Interrupt or Interrupt-Reset-Clock-Interrupt paddle-switch sequences. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Houben Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 8:39 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Dinosaurs The first machine I worked on was a Microdata 1600 with 4 50 MB Winchester "washtub" drives. It ran 16 users on 64K of core memory. That was back in 1981. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute, print, or copy the email, or take any action in reliance on its contents. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
