Question about notebook memory - for the computer guys.
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Like when I was 16 working in high school. Big mainframe that our school with 5 users and about 20 other schools with the same number of users, totalled out at about 1 Megabyte.
The machine was huge too...
Now I'm working on machines that have 1000 times the memory, and 1000 times the speed...
The machine was huge too...
Now I'm working on machines that have 1000 times the memory, and 1000 times the speed...
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First computer I worked on had:
1. Aluminum cards with tiny bar magnets for permanent memory (thousands of them)
2. Core stores (long before ram) 32K words each 2 units were the size of a refrigerator
3. 9 track 1 inch wide tape units
4. Clock speed 5.5usec
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1. Aluminum cards with tiny bar magnets for permanent memory (thousands of them)
2. Core stores (long before ram) 32K words each 2 units were the size of a refrigerator
3. 9 track 1 inch wide tape units
4. Clock speed 5.5usec
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Dialtone. That's some ancient technology there.... My first computer was a commodore vic 20 with a 20k memory expansion cartridge..... Then I got my ti-99/4a, then a commodore 64, then a 386DX40 with 2 megs of ram, a 1 meg trident video card, a 40 gig HDD and a 5.25" floppy drive.... This was the ultimate gaming machine at the time.....
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Originally Posted by pfogle
Dialtone. That's some ancient technology there.... My first computer was a commodore vic 20 with a 20k memory expansion cartridge..... Then I got my ti-99/4a, then a commodore 64, then a 386DX40 with 2 megs of ram, a 1 meg trident video card, a 40 gig HDD and a 5.25" floppy drive.... This was the ultimate gaming machine at the time.....
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Originally Posted by Dialtone
2. Core stores (long before ram) 32K words each 2 units were the size of a refrigerator
3. 9 track 1 inch wide tape units
3. 9 track 1 inch wide tape units
ESS 1, my lord... Imagine, we're only at ESS 5 in the general populace
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Cool, we used some PDP-8's for test fixtures. I can still remember toggling the switches on the front to load a boot loader routine just to get it smart enough to go know how to find the tape drive and load test programs. Now that was a long time ago.
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Haha at 40 gig you would've had the ultimate machine at that time. I was thinking you meant meg but wasn't quite sure..
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Product of late at night, and too tired to make a coherent post. But yes... I had a 486Dx4100 (overclocked 75mhz overdrive chip) that had a 6.4gig in it for a while. That drive still works.
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