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| From | Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers, comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) |
| Date | 2026-11-09 07:29 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <11cslbj$1afi4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 11/8/26 20:54, c186282 wrote: > On 11/8/26 21:34, Lars Poulsen wrote: >> On 11/8/2026 18:24, c186282 wrote: >>> On 11/8/26 03:08, Thomas Koenig wrote: >>>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> schrieb: >>>> >>>>> A lot of the old mini's - even mainframes - were >>>>> VERY SLOW by any modern standard. Slow enough to >>>>> be hilarious these days. CPU speed barely factored >>>>> in - the I/O speed with cards/tapes/etc used up >>>>> a huge amount of time. >>>> >>>> Hence spooling. >>> >>> Spooling HELPS ... but, at some point, you've gotta >>> actually read/write to the shitty slow media. Also >>> spooling requires RAM ... which was in short supply >>> for a long time. I remember big cubes full of mag-core >>> memory ..... and it wasn't MUCH memory either. >> >> Back in my University Computer Center days, a few of us attended a >> class in London on debugging paradigms. On the first day, we >> introduced ourselves and described our workplace's significant >> computer systems. One of the attendeed was from IBM Grenoble, and as >> he described their main system with a whopping 16MB of main memory, we >> all oohed and aahed and wondered aloud how anyone could make >> productive use of that much memory. But he explained that they easily >> used it all up with their static analysis tools, their version control >> system, their auditing programs making sure the programs adhered to >> their programming standards etc. We all shook our heads at how IBM >> clearly had too much money on their hands if they could spend it on >> such frills!! > > 16 MEGABYTES ??? Wow !!! :-) > > The old mag-core memory units were MUCH smaller. > > Also EXPENSIVE as all hell ... hey, little ferrite > doughnuts hand-placed on wires ....... > > The coolest was 'rope memory' ... the doughnuts > hand-placed on long strands of wires. the old > Lunar Excursion Module computer used it. NASA > basically contracted Good Knitter grannies ... Wasn't the rope memory ROM for that thing?
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My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-06 18:37 -0800
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-07 00:51 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-07 06:20 -0800
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-07 07:38 -0700
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-08 02:47 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-07 07:31 -0700
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-07 06:52 -0800
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-07 20:09 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-08 08:08 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-08 21:24 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-08 18:34 -0800
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-08 22:54 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-09 04:39 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 21:08 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-10 02:25 +0000
Re: My Computer History Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-10 02:32 +0000
Re: My Computer History c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 23:07 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 22:49 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-10 06:03 -0800
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-10 15:08 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-09 07:29 -0700
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-09 16:11 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 21:19 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Bob Eager <throwaway0008@eager.cx> - 2026-11-10 14:31 +0000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-09 07:48 -1000
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 21:55 -0500
Re: My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-09 21:35 -0700
Re: spooling, My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-09 16:56 +0000
Re: spooling, My Computer History (Re: Is This An Old Folks Home?) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 21:46 -0500
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