You know your getting older when.......

Pete · 02-16-2009, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailchaser

when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

acarr · 02-16-2009, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Pete

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

and I was just going to mention the 5.25 floppy disk with no hard drive

Whee · 02-16-2009, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.

Why do I suddenly have the urge to eat an Everlasting Gobstoppper?