Brings back some memories of helping service some of those old Mini-computers myself -- there were others besides DEC like Xerox, Harris, Micro-Data, Data General -- all vanished as part of the PC era --
Max Maxfield 6/29/2012 10:06:46 PM User Rank Blogger
It's amazing when you think about it...
I know a lot of younger members of All Programmable Planet will think of thev1970s as being deep in the mists of time, but to me it really doesn't seem all that long ago.
When you mentioned 128 KB of RAM and the removable drives as holding 2.5MB each, that was HUGE for the time ... now these amounts of storage get "lost in the noise"
We certainly do live in interesting times...
This "retrospective" blog describes how I became involved in testing microprocessors in 1976, and how microprocessors have influenced my professional work for many years...
ASIC and FPGA designer Sven Anderson continues his "Retrospective" series with reflections on the (r)evolution he's seen with regard to computer memories.
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