Dave-So opened this issue on Aug 28, 2002 ยท 61 posts
ockham posted Thu, 29 August 2002 at 9:39 AM
I began with punch cards in high school but didn't really get into programming until I encountered a PDP-8 with sound processing abilities. At that time a sound system was for specialized scientific use, and cost $3000; now, of course, a much superior system is just included free with each computer. The PDP-8 used those 8" floppies, and also had a highly advanced removable hard disk, which was about the size of a car tire and held one fabulous megabyte! Who could ever fill that much space?