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PeteXXX

Cake or ice cream? The choice is endless ...
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craigwend

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craigwend

Grimpeur des terrains plats
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Alex321

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South Wales

I remember when I started University, in 1977, them proudly showing us around the computer room, which was a pretty large room housing one mainframe computer and various storage devices.

It had 128K of main memory, and a few exchangeable disc packs, each about 12" across, 7-8" deep, and capable of storing 300K of data. Even 15 years ago, when smartphones were in their infancy, an average one had way more processing power and memory than that did.
 

Profpointy

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I remember when I started University, in 1977, them proudly showing us around the computer room, which was a pretty large room housing one mainframe computer and various storage devices.

It had 128K of main memory, and a few exchangeable disc packs, each about 12" across, 7-8" deep, and capable of storing 300K of data. Even 15 years ago, when smartphones were in their infancy, an average one had way more processing power and memory than that did.

A friend described a visit to his university computer room in the same era. The room was largely empty, but with a couple of wardrobe sized pdp11 minicomputers in one corner. These had replaced the entire roomfull of earlier generation kit.
 

Alex321

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South Wales
A friend described a visit to his university computer room in the same era. The room was largely empty, but with a couple of wardrobe sized pdp11 minicomputers in one corner. These had replaced the entire roomfull of earlier generation kit.

Our Uni moved to those a couple of years later, while I was still there.
 
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