Posted on Sep 14, 2021
The IBM 305 RAMAC, the First Computer with a Hard Drive: $10,000 per Megabyte : History of...
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Cut my teeth on the IBM computer that ran the FB-111 simulator. Can't tell you how many hours spent on the card cutting machine then running the program then cutting more cards to try to fix problems.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen CWO4 Terrence Clark Remember when your utility bills were sent on punch cards? What is amazing is that a single modern cellphone has more technology and information than those older computers
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SGT (Join to see) - The distance we've come is what always gets me. So much power in the palm of our hands compared to what took up an entire room only a few decades ago.
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Thanks for posting. Being a computer nerd, I love this kind of history. I'm not as... "seasoned" as some of the folks commenting, but I do appreciate experiencing what I did in the 80s and 90s and using that to teach folks today how far we've come. I do have a "souvenir" punch card that I picked up from my last TDY to a PARCS radar site. I keep that along with my 8" floppy, and copies of CP/M and DOS v1.2.
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