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Skriven 2006-07-31 15:42:05 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
  Kommentar till text 35175 av Peter Knapper (3:772/1.0)
Ärende: Re: Where where you when the Towers came down?
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*** Quoting Peter Knapper from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> removables but oriented the other way and 12ft long or 
 CS> more.  Monsters.  IBM3000 series (watercooled systems too).


PK> Aha, the later era then.......;-) I know the ones you mean, about 2.5
PK> feet diameter, using a horizontal spindle (in massive metal frame), du
PK> opposing heads (it used to decide which set of heads to use based on t
PK> rotational position of the data it needed) and non-removeable. Big bug
PK> 1980's time frame, stored around 1.5GB per drive...

Umm, not sure but the total spread we had was in terrabytes.  The computer room
was so big, it had center stanchions to support the middle of the room, big
thick ones.  These units were racked all along the center of one side of it.

PK> You do realise that knowing those beasts sort of dates you a bit......

 CS> ;-)  Yup.  I still even speak a little VMS.

PK> VMS is modern, not like IBM Mainframe DOS (1960's)...

You mean it's still around....  Yes, been there a long time.  Cut my teeth on
BSD, saw VMS hit us in the early 80's but it predates that.  Lots of OS's used
and new (counting on fingers) 9 of them well including mainframe DOS which was
still used though phasing out when I came into the scene.

Laugh, I remember getting my first PC at work and being told to load the OS on
it.  I did and was plugging around then my Chief came over and whispered in a
laoud way 'hey Shenk, that was DOS you were supposed to load, not unix..'  Got
all confusilated when it wouldnt reload with DOS so took to debug and noted
the master boot record had stuff in it so flashed that and it loaded fine. 
Just took me some time to find FDISK /MBR was what i needed.  Boss just looked
at me and shook his head muttering something about too geeky to be teaching
computer school...

What I never did learn was how to program.  Oh, I can script or write a
batchfile with the best, but real programming?  Nope.


 CS> What is the site?  I might have fun peekig at some of my old friends.

PK> I lost the URL and I haven't been able to find it again (not using the
PK> right combination of ancient incantations.......;-)), but here are a f
PK> others that you may find interesting.......;-)

Ok I'll peek at them later and thanks!
                                       xxcarol

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