youthfully boggled by your description of the computer
This was the first computer system I worked on way back in 1968-71 which filled one floor of the building, did the computing for four government departments (Statistics, Treasury, Tax, Health) and the computing grunt of a Commodore C64 which these days doesn't even rate as a toy. The CDC 3200 cost about AUD1.25million in 1964, and the 2Gb microSD card in my cellphone which cost $10 five years ago has 87,000 times the memory capacity of the CDC 3200.
Yeah, computers have come a little way since I first started working with them...
and the world around here is still rattling away...
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reminiscence time...
Date: 2013-08-17 12:08 am (UTC)From:This was the first computer system I worked on way back in 1968-71 which filled one floor of the building, did the computing for four government departments (Statistics, Treasury, Tax, Health) and the computing grunt of a Commodore C64 which these days doesn't even rate as a toy. The CDC 3200 cost about AUD1.25million in 1964, and the 2Gb microSD card in my cellphone which cost $10 five years ago has 87,000 times the memory capacity of the CDC 3200.
Yeah, computers have come a little way since I first started working with them...
and the world around here is still rattling away...