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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nemer who wrote (60960)	12/3/2000 2:29:42 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

Anyone remember the big floppy floppies....? I'm not talking about the 5 1/4 inch 4 MB floppies. I'm talking about the 8" 256K ones...?? Anyone here used tapes for data storage ? The tapedrives were as big as a large refrigerator with a capacity of a few hundred KBs.... I remember IBM 360 used to have 4KB memory (core memory - ferrous rings!). When they were expanded to accomodate another 4MB, our company had to install 5 of 1.5 tonnes of airconditioners to maintain the temperature...and we had to take our shoes off to go into the 'computer room'. The equipment like printers and the disc drives, ran on hydraulic system...(the form feed was thru hydraulic pressure !)....my husband, then my fiancee, used to maintain the equipment, and would come home with oil on his clothes. I think he looked like a car mechanic back then... My final year project in college was a specialised version of an Electrocardiogram which ran on an 8085 chip, all programming was in assembly language... We've come a long way I'd say... EDIT : In my last post I mentioned disk drives of 720KB, it was a misprint, they were 13MB drives....all 5 of them...