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To: Roadrunner383

In 1972, a computer was the size of a 5 star hotel suite, weighed a ton or more, had it’s own air conditioning system, and had memory measured in ‘k’ bits, and you inputted data via keypunch cards.........................


7 posted on 01/24/2023 7:24:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

And we programmed in 1s and 0s, and sometimes we didn’t even have the 1s.


8 posted on 01/24/2023 7:24:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
Our FADAC computer in the Army in 1972 was field ready.


18 posted on 01/24/2023 7:39:04 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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