cpu overheating JOKING:::

[Hadders]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Les wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:35 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> I was amazed when I installed FC2. I didn't think I selected
>>> all that much to install. It was about 7 Gig.
>>>
>>> All systems seem enormously bloated to me these days. But I
>>> started with computers when 4K of RAM was considered a lot.
>>>
>>
>> If you can't do it with 12bits and 4K what's the point. If you 
>> haven't used paper tape, how do you realize what a program really
>> is?
>
> I can't remember anymore what the word size of the IBM 1401
> was. I recall we had 4K words of memory. I *think* it was
> 12 bits, because we used punch cards, which have 12 rows on
> them. So I think 12 bits was right. And it was true core,
> little magnetic doughnuts. We had no assembler and certainly
> no compiler for that machine. We did machine language.
>
> Mike
Is that the sound of a dinosaur I hear roaring in the distance ;-)  
*just kidding, couldn't resist*