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Article #620636Re: Nostalgia
From: Jon Elson
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:47
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:47
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Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote: > Gazing at my bookcase and noting a 1971 copy of the > PDP8's Small Computer Handbook. > > That was 47 years ago, and then 47 years before then > takes us back to 1924, well before the days of any > working programmable machines (pace the Jacquard Loom) > > Now that the Raspberry Pi 3 gives us a quadcore 64 bit > processor with 1GB of RAM for only a few £ / $, I realise that a lot of > our nostalgia and folklore of those days is for something > very primitive compare to today's offerings Oh, yeah! I started out working on 12-bit discrete transistor minis like the PDP-5 and LINC, and even fiddled a bit with a Bendix G-15 (vacuum tube and drum memory). And, took programming classes on the univerity's IBM 360/50, editing programs on punch cards. BLECH!! Even the uVAX-II I put together in 1986 and ran for about 21 years was some 1000 X slower than an ordinary desktop PC. Jon
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