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vasanthz
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vasanthz
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Step 1: Travel to past & sell all ur hard disks
Step 2 : Come back to present China & buy 106 crabs.
Step 3: Get into direct sunlight
Step 4: Place crabs on floor in sunlight
Step 5: Wait 3 minutes
Step 6: Take over the world. |
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Ed Goodman
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I helped my brother-in-law install a 1MB hard drive on his TRS-80 computer.
It was the size of a record player and had to be started with an actual key. You had to let it spin up to proper speed before it would work.
It was 1983. |
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DRM - Josué Neto
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Do you know the year of this ad? Never heard of XCOMP before.
By the way, does anyone know about the computer used by the first men on the moon? I guess it was less than 1MB. |
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don.leahy
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| I think the Apollo command module had a 64K computer on board. Might have been even smaller than that. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Akatsukami
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| DRM - Josué Neto wrote: |
| Do you know the year of this ad? |
The MB/dollar ratio suggests early 1980s. XCOMP was, I think, a short-lived manufacturer of HD control circuitry from about that same period. |
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Bill Woodger
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| 1982, September, from Google. Sounds about right. This is a pre-PC, S100-bus system. |
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PeterHolland
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| DRM - Josué Neto wrote: |
By the way, does anyone know about the computer used by the first men on the moon? I guess it was less than 1MB. |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus |
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Bill Woodger
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Thanks Peter. I even followed the link, thinking it was an acronym, wondering why there were no references to it in enrico's link, etc :-)
Made my day (so far) :-) |
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dick scherrer
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PeterHolland
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| You are welcome Bill. |
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