Anyone around 18 in the group?

[Major.Mikey]

On Sunday 07 August 2005 01:16 am, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> About 1963, GE brought the Dartmouth time sharing system to Phx. It
> coupled a GE235 "mainframe" (which had either 8 or 16K of 20 bit
> words--I don't remember which) with a Datanet 30 Front End Processor.
> They called the combo a GE265 (235+30). I was at Motorola Semi @ 52nd &
> McDowell. They let us use it for free, but we had to rent a tty33 with a
> 110 baud modem (that's about 10 char/sec for you young sprouts) from
> AT&T for $60/month. Since about once a week I was greeted by "Disk
> crash, data restored as of ____" when I logged on. I ALWAYS dumped my
> program & data to punch paper tape before signing off.

WOW. All these memories are so cool! I like hearing them.