MGD opened this issue on Feb 03, 2008 · 28 posts
MGD posted Wed, 06 February 2008 at 9:57 AM
As long as we're tripping down memory lane ...
I remember when an 80MBy PCMCIA (CardBus) was considered extraordinary!
Then again, the first computer I programmed had 5 misrosecond core memory
with 4096 words of 18 bits each ... the Lincoln Labs TX-0. A 5 minute discussion
about the machine's workings was enough information to kick off my lifelong
career. BTW, the person explaining the TX-0 described what I later found to be
a von Neumann architecture computer ... without mentioning John von Neumann.
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Martin