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In Reply to: RE: 8 TB hard drives coming posted by LWR on August 27, 2014 at 09:08:23
Man we have come a long ways,do you remember the stats on your first computer?
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... which was a Burroughs B500 running at a local service bureau.
The central processor chassis was the size of one of those Suzuki SUVs and had a maximum RAM capacity (non-volatile magnetic core memory) of 19,2KB and - if you needed disk storage - another cabinet the size of a SpeedQueen laundromat washer which held a head-per-track 5MB hard disk offering 5ms average access time.
But this 'beast' was not what I was employed to program - that turned out to be an electronic accounting machine - the Burroughs E6000. The accounting machine label ensured that the operator console resembled a typewriter on steroids - 22 inch moving carriage plus two fixed printer mechanisms - one, a numeric gang printer, the other a box-writer alphanumeric printer offset by 4.1" from the LSD position of the gang printer. Memory was non-volatile magnetic core with a capacity of 400 words of 12 digits plus sign with data storage catered for via magnetic striped ledger cards as unit records.
First project was to write a complete suite of applications for the municipality of a nearby town of 100,000 inhabitants. The suite eventually comprised property tax billing, water and electricity billing, other sundry services billing, accounts receivable and accounts payable, weekly wages and monthly salaries, a general ledger plus a loan repayment schedule (amortisation on a processor with just add/subtract/multiply/divide as arithmetic functions...
A year of that and I'd been convinced to switch to sales... :)
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A friend of mine got burnt when he ordered 2 Meg of RAM for his IBM AT clone - turned out to be vaporware.
and that's on top of the $1,300 or so that it cost (with its glorious B/W display). There wasn't originally a HD option, but later on they did offer it. Not what you would call cost effective. I'd have been better off ditching it and buying a model 30, which you could get with a 20 MB drive. Even so, I have fond memories of the 25, my first real computer. I never had one problem with it.
High rollin', baby. Followed shortly thereafter by never-ending Windows nightmares.
That reminded me I have an Osborn somewhere in my storage, I have not thought about it in years.
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