On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:54 -0400, Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:06:03PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > > > "Robert G. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note that Bob and I started out on systems with far less than 100 MB > > > of DISK and perhaps a MB of system memory on a fat SERVER in the > > > latter 80's. And the P(o)DP(eople) made do with even less in the > > > early 80's. > > > > My first machine was a PDP-8. 4k of 12 bit words of genuine magnetic > > core memory, and two DECtape units with some small amount of storage > > (I can't remember, but I think it was on the order of 100k). I believe > > there are icons on my modern desktop that take up more space than that > > whole machine had for core. > > Although it wasn't my first machine [1], I did work with an > admittedly-old-at-the-time PDP-8 for a while in the early > 1980s. It was used to run a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer > (think quarter-million-dollar film scanner).
My first machine was a PDP 11/45, which was installed at my fathers place of work in the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. The Diagnostic Methodology Researtch Unit - they did early research in computer assisted diagnosis of GI complaints, using a green CRT terminal which asked the patient questions. Coded in Fortran (of course), and they used Baysian statistics which in those days was pretty cutting edge stuff. I also remember programming on the HP 85 belonging to the Professor in the unit http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp85.htm _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
