If You're talking Sperry mainframe - magnetically coated water pipe, then you forgot the wait 24 hours for stabilisation
I once watched a team of engineers part dismantle and move a set of 36" diameter disks twice rather than touch the drum memory, and that was one of the low capacity drums ( about 48" long inside it's housing) JimB And yes I not only remember, but used dBase 1 on computer systems with green, or amber characters on a black, or dark brown screen - with 8" floppy discs - Then again I'm old enough to have worked on a Pegasus - 512 characters of memory Paper tape in & out and a 'mainframe' system with 4K memory, and 4 10Kb tape drives, and a binary operator console Those IS people nowadays, they don't know their born JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:45 PM Subject: Re: OT Recovery console humor > Hi, > > "Main power breaker on, push button A, wait 30 sec, push button B". Anyone > played with a drum memory? ;-) > > My first "PC" was a self-built industrial development system (a bit like the > Intellec 8), based on an 8085, with twin 5-1/2" FDs, 80kB each, & E-prom > programmer. I upgraded the font in the "dumb terminal" to include lower case > (a small wiring change & a new character-generator E-prom). > > BTW, I have also worked with 8" FDs, 80- & 96(!)-column cards! > > Regards, > > Richard.be > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Dykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:18 PM > Subject: Re: OT Recovery console humor > > > > When I opened the message, I found that Stephen Bird had written: > > > >> Hand up, here. Are you talking HD 5.25" or (was it) 360? lol > >> How about an amber monitor? Another hand up here. :-) > >> 286? Sure. > > > > You guys have a short memory!! > > > > 286??? You had that speed demon? You should get a speeding ticket? > > > > How about 8Mhgz.....floorboarded? > > > > Don't even ask about the modem speed! > > > > Regards, > > > > Jim > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
