On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal
spec
for a desktop 2024.
The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB, not MB, not GB. That's why IBM
called it the 1401.
And the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has a
restored 1401 that they power up twice a week for demonstrations.
As well as a restored DEC PDP-1. Not PDP-11. Not PDP-10. PDP-1. Until I
saw it demonstrated, I wasn't even aware that DEC had ever used magnetic
core memory. That one is only powered up for demonstrations twice a month.
--
James H. H. Lampert
