To: Knute
Did you have problems with the PDP's overheating? Ours would run for about 2 hours and we'd have to stop and cool them down! Whew! Man, those machines were FAST! And the Floppies were 8 inches across!
27 posted on
09/10/2004 6:53:22 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Kerry can't run on his record, so George Bush is going to.....)
To: Red Badger
Did you have problems with the PDP's overheating? Ours would run for about 2 hours and we'd have to stop and cool them down! Whew! Man, those machines were FAST! And the Floppies were 8 inches across!
Floppies?? Our I/O was via ticker tape! I think we might have had 4K of RAM available. This was a high school honors course. You had to have specific permission from the department chairman to even enter the room! I don't remember any cooling issues, but there may have been...
33 posted on
09/10/2004 9:05:46 AM PDT by
Knute
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