Posted on 01/13/2012 6:52:59 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
IBM announced on Thursday that its boffins managed to cut the physical requirements for a bit of data, whereby number of required atoms has been reduced from a million to only 12.12? That's the best they can do? ;')
The good old days Ernest, when we did neat stuff.
A gigabyte of RAM for $50? Did that include courier service?
“This is starting to get ridiculous. Next someone will claim that he worked on an original Babbage Difference Engine.”
For this to work you have to read it in an “old geezer telling his grandson about when he was a kid” voice .....
“Babbage difference engine you say? Why in MY day we didn’t have those fancy wind up computers. We used the CABBAGE Difference Engine. If you wanted to know the difference between 10 and 7, you put 10 cabbages on the desk, and then you took 7 of them off the desk. What was left was the difference. And we liked it!”
I saw a 604, a couple 650's, and a 709--but never had to train to work on them.
Many of our customers were transitioning from exclusively punch card equipment directly to transistor computers such as the 1401, 1410, and 7070. Of course, they still had rooms full of punch card operators banging away on model 24's, 26's and the equivalent verifiers. And still needed duplicating punches, interpreters, and sorters.
I saw a 604, a couple 650's, and a 709--but never had to train to work on them.
And changing the oil on a 407 accounting machine was about like overhauling a beetle engine. At least as messy, anyway.
Gracious, some of us old f4rts go back a ways, don't we? ≤}B^)
Yep....an old geezer here!
I remember those keypunches...and the well endowed ladies striking the keyboard with other parts than their fingers....LOL!
Sure, who will ever need more than 640Kb
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