tedd wrote:
At 8:50 AM -0600 3/29/06, Jay Blanchard wrote:
[snip]
Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I
recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first
mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early
1800's.
Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we
had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare.
You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with.
[/snip]
ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that.
I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb
dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit
Not meaning to continue this thread, but you brought back memories.
I remember in the early 80's when Crovis (sp) came out the their first
HD -- at least it was the first I drooled over. It had 5 Megs and cost
$5k and you could daisy-chain three together to get a whopping 15M for
only $15,000.
In my last HD purchase, 15M cost me less than $0.01. Not a bad advance
in technology over the last 20 years, huh?
Hard drives. You wusses. Between punch cards, data cassettes, 5-1/4
and 8" floppies, it was years before I saw a hard drive.
--
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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