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[Mike McCarty]

Hadders wrote:
> 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*
> 

Better start running; I *love* small furry mammals for lunch :-)

Mike
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