1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives?

From	"James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives?
Date	2024-12-12 02:40 +0100
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On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>>> You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal
>> spec
>>> for a desktop 2024.
> 
> The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
> 6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB, not MB, not GB. That's why IBM
> called it the 1401.

And the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has a 
restored 1401 that they power up twice a week for demonstrations.

As well as a restored DEC PDP-1. Not PDP-11. Not PDP-10. PDP-1. Until I 
saw it demonstrated, I wasn't even aware that DEC had ever used magnetic 
core memory. That one is only powered up for demonstrations twice a month.

--
James H. H. Lampert

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Re: Firefox alternatives? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-12-12 01:10 +0100
  Re: Firefox alternatives? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-12-12 01:40 +0100
    Re: Firefox alternatives? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2024-12-12 01:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? eben@gmx.us - 2024-12-12 02:00 +0100
      1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives? "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2024-12-12 02:40 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 09:20 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 10:00 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2024-12-12 19:50 +0100
      Re: Firefox alternatives? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2024-12-12 13:10 +0100
        Re: Firefox alternatives? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-12-12 13:20 +0100
          Re: Firefox alternatives? "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2024-12-12 14:10 +0100

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