It was used for holding the micro data calculated during processing density arrays (FFT) on microbes and virus particles. One of the HP (25000um) drives would be more suitable these days of course.
D Adam Maas wrote: > beats me, ask Don, he had one, not me ;-) > > -Adam > > mike wilson wrote: > >>> From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: 2006/11/16 Thu PM 01:18:15 GMT >>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: PESO - a gathering at the museum >>> >>> Not necessarily, I did my first serious work on a Fox Z80. No drives, 4K >>> of RAM, all programming was via keying in hand-assembled hex. Rather >>> nice embedded training system. I was glad when I started to do PLC work >>> though, far easier to work with. >>> >> So.... what precise use _is_ a 15millibyte hard drive? >> >> >> >>> Nowadays I smack spammers for a living and don't do much in the way of >>> programming beyond a little bash shell stuff or perl. >>> >>> -Adam >>> >>> >>> mike wilson wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> From: Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> <snip> a 15 mbyte hard drive >>>>> >>>> Looks like you win the "my computer was less capable than yours" argument >>>> by about 9 orders of magnitude. >>>> 8-) >>>> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html >>>> >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------- >>>> Email sent from www.ntlworld.com >>>> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software >>>> Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> Email sent from www.ntlworld.com >> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software >> Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information >> >> >> > > > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
