On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
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Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades involved fork lifts.
I tried to stay out of this thread, I really did. But the "forklift" reference hooked me.
Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M") bytes of "core" (back then, no simms, dimms, ...). Running IBM DOS, we had three partitons going, 1 bg, 2 fg. It was decided that an aftermarket upgrade would allow us to consolidate the two foreground functions into one and use two background partitions for batch production processing.
The aftermarket expansion was bought and took us up to a "whopping" 96KB of "core" memory. The expansion unit (best I can recall) was about 5.5' x 8' x 3', or 132 cubic feet. 8-O
Anyway, a forklift took it off the truck. And large hand pallet jack was used to roll it across the raised flooring.
It did the job too. It was several years before we upgraded to a S360/50 with 512K (IIRC).
Dave
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