Axis with secure communication

[cherry blossom]

Having had my data stored on paper tape, I think you guys had it easy. One can mend a ripped paper tape by using transparent sticky tape and then of course repunching the holes to allow the electrical contacts.
ps. I once dropped a 1000 card Fortran program but naturally columns 73-80 had the sequence numbers.

 

[SaparotRob]

Been there. Done that.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

My PC in university in the early 1990s had a 40 MB hard drive .

I always get a laugh out of my son telling him about his phone vs the first computer I programmed, a Commodore PET. His phone literally has eight million times the storage capacity and four million times the processing speed.

On the downside, his phone doesn't have a cassette-drive for I/O. I guess that's something.

My first PC-type computer, in 1990, was a hot-rod -- two 40-meg hard drives, and a processor that could do 12 Mhz if you pressed the "Turbo" button.

 

[swampyankee]

Having had my data stored on paper tape, I think you guys had it easy. One can mend a ripped paper tape by using transparent sticky tape and then of course repunching the holes to allow the electrical contacts.
ps. I once dropped a 1000 card Fortran program but naturally columns 73-80 had the sequence numbers.

Been there, done that, too.

The operators where I went to school were notorious for dropping student decks (I think some of the CS majors deliberately) dropped the decks from non-CS majors), so we would use the command to re-punch our program decks with sequence numbers. Fun times. I think this is the initial of my continuing, umh, dislike of sysadmins. Of course, having had the sysadmins neglect to renew the compiler licenses when I was doing PLM programming, resulting in about 250 programmers twiddling their thumbs for two days, didn't help that condition.

It was nice when I got to talk to the computer via TSO and JCL from a terminal. What luxury!

 

[GrauGeist]

I recall having to dial the phone number if the BBS and drop the handset into the Hayes modem - driven by my i386 tower with an Intel 80386 processor and a whopping 8mb of fixed RAM. My c:\ was a Seagate ST225 (25mb) hdd and a Microscribe d:\ drive that had 145mb of capacity - people told me I was stupid for getting such a huge (and expensive) drive, since I wouldn't live long enough to see it maxed...

 

[SaparotRob]

Wow. I haven't heard of i386 in a long time. Anyone remember the Captain Zilog advertisement?

 

[Admiral Beez]

I always get a laugh out of my son telling him about his phone vs the first computer I programmed, a Commodore PET. His phone literally has eight million times the storage capacity and four million times the processing speed.

On the downside, his phone doesn't have a cassette-drive for I/O. I guess that's something.

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Imagine what Alan Turing could have done with one PET. He'd need a lot of tape drives though.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Imagine what Alan Turing could have done with one PET. He'd need a lot of tape drives though.

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Between one and three thousand operations per second would definitely help help him at his job!

 

[GrauGeist]

Imagine what Alan Turing could have done with one PET. He'd need a lot of tape drives though.

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I still have one of those (packed away somewhere).