(semi OT) For those that remember (and those that don't)

[Shawn Badger]

You could still write software for AS400's to get that "green screen" fill!!


:)



On Dec 11, 2007 11:40 PM, <fouldragon at aol.com> wrote:

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> Y'know, as I sit here looking at a 24" monitor that cost the equivalent
> of 20 hours' salary, next to a computer with more memory than existed
> in the world in 1965, I have to say, in a way, I long for the days when
> technology was huge, ominous, and limited to the highly trained elite.
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> I wish I wasn't writing PHP for web users to see pretty pictures, but
> rather C that generated bland text on green screens.
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> I was born 25 years too late.
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> From: Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu>
> To: plug <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 6:39 pm
> Subject: (semi OT) For those that remember (and those that don't)
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> Found on slashdot:
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> Hardware: The 305 RAMAC — First Commercial Hard Drive
> Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 10, @03:15PM
> from the looking-back-for-perspective dept.
> Data Storage
> Captain DaFt writes "Snopes.com has an article that gives an
> interesting
> look back at the first commercial hard drive, the IBM 350. Twice as big
> as a refrigerator and weighing in at a ton, it packed a whopping 4.4MB!
> Compare that to the 1-4GB sticks that most of us have on our keychains
> today."
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