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Re: Microcomputer History [message #93766 is a reply to message #93730]

Thu, 13 May 2021 20:39

gofar99
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Registered: May 2010
Location: Southern Arizona

Illuminati (5th Degree)

Hi, The first computers I got to work on used machine code...what a pain. Then SPS, Fortran, and Basic. One of the computers occupied a room about 100 X 100 feet. It had a huge bank of tape drives and disk drives (the size of dishwashers). They said it had a megabyte of memory. They used it to compute big time serious science stuff..like planatery ordits and satellite data. As I recall it was Burroughs. The machine they let us use most was an IBM 1620. My phone can run circles around any of them by about a factor of 1,000,000 or so. Rolling Eyes

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Bruce

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		Microcomputer History By: Wayne Parham on Tue, 11 May 2021 16:03
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