oops,...er, I thought it said 'computing'

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Grant Fondo
Location
Cheshire
My first pc gpu had 256kb of VRAM....now i hace 2 x 8gb, ludicrous!
 

Kestevan

Last of the Summer Winos
Location
Holmfirth.
I remember the time of the DEC PDP-11

They had proper disk drives :smile:

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All 5MB of it !

My first proper job was as operator on an aging ICL-2900 Mainframe.. One of the daily task involved changing that days drive packs. I recall there were 5 drives, each holding a 200mb Disk platter array. They weighed a bloody ton, and were rather "fragile".....



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Better than spending a couple of hours getting punched paper tape to read (and repairing it when it tore - every 10 minutes or so).
 
THere was a quote about the problems with computers and data storage, which I vaguely remember and cannot attribute.

BAsically:

YOu can read the Dead Sea Scrolls...... but try getting an invoice off a 5" floppy disc
 
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