Re: Progress in data processing

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>

Well that was a few years before my time, but you probably
remember the INP (it hung off the GIC).  Early versions had
a mulitasking OS in 16K.  Of course it didn't have a file system.