Re: Progress in data processing

Jeremy Thomson wrote:
> 
> I have to smile. I started working in D.P (thats Data Processing
> to you whippersnappers) in 1985.
>
> The computer was an old NCR century 100, its was 18 years old & I
> was 17.  This machine was one of the first to use MOS memory,
> 256K in all, though it still had about 4K of boot core memory.
>
> Every job was started with punched cards, we had a 'console' which
> was a typewriter keyboard & thermal printer.  Disks were removable
> disk packs, they had been 'unstrapped' to increase the storage to
> 200Mb, there were three, the drives were the size of wa****ng
> machines.

Sounds much like an early version of the HP3000 circa 1973 (I was
about 42), but with a much poorer OS.  That could function with
128kB (64 kW) of memory.  We mounted a C on it about 10 years
later, when the memory was up to some number of megs, and the
machine was much smaller.

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