And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, April 16, 2022
1966 Univac 9000 Series disk cartridge prototype, which had a 2.2 MB storage capacity.
20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing - and as late as 1979, I was working with big DEC 'minicomputers' that hard 5 MB removable disk platters ... in fact one of them that ran a big raw materials manufacturing operation had 64K iron core memory and a 5 MB drum (not disc) and had to be started up off paper or mylar tape.
When I de clutter my loft space I will unearth SyQuest discs by the dozen along with mag opticals. I was a squirrel, always saving fonts and copyright free images. All useless now unless someone can give me a Mac IICX or a Quadra. Lord, I'm getting old.
That's nuthin. Our Digital Eq PDP1134 with RKO6 drives (big as filing cabinet) had 28 mb capacity ea. Maximum CPU memory was 256k. Thing cost 70 grand and needed a room by itself.
And 2.2 MB would be all the storage you'd ever need.
ReplyDelete“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
ReplyDeleteThomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
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20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing - and as late as 1979, I was working with big DEC 'minicomputers' that hard 5 MB removable disk platters ... in fact one of them that ran a big raw materials manufacturing operation had 64K iron core memory and a 5 MB drum (not disc) and had to be started up off paper or mylar tape.
ReplyDeleteWhen I de clutter my loft space I will unearth SyQuest discs by the dozen along with mag opticals. I was a squirrel, always saving fonts and copyright free images. All useless now unless someone can give me a Mac IICX or a Quadra. Lord, I'm getting old.
ReplyDeleteHang on Andy, I'm betting FireWire is gonna make a comeback.
DeleteThat's nuthin. Our Digital Eq PDP1134 with RKO6 drives (big as filing cabinet) had 28 mb capacity ea. Maximum CPU memory was 256k. Thing cost 70 grand and needed a room by itself.
ReplyDeleteThat's what our Applicon cad systems used. Complete with tape drives, plotters sold separately.
DeleteMere kids. Think 12AT7, dual triode, vacuum tube nand gates, and then we can talk.
DeleteThe company I work for upscreens 4TBIT NAND Flash for space applications in a package about the size of a dime.
ReplyDelete-Snakepit