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  3. February 2008

Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running without a programstack)

Graap, Kenneth wrote:
My first IBM system was a 3031 with 4MB of RAM! This was in the late
70's... The RAM was a 'wire and donut' configuration housed in a box 3
feet square and about 6 feet high.

Nowadays, if you want to see literal core memory for yourself, you need a museum. (As I recall, Boston's Museum of Science has some.)

Hard enough trying to scrounge up a picture of an old-style removable disk pack (that's what I use for drive icons on my Mac).


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