By Peter Cochrane
Published: Thursday 25 October 2007
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Karen Challinor
Location
UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
Comment
I remember using RL02 drives in a PDP11, massive things they were, multiplatter, removable, looked a bit like flying saucers if you were a sci fi nerd like me
held something like a staggering 10Mb as I remember, it had the operating system, compilers and all the user files on
and that served around 8 people in a development lab
and how big is a single user copy of vista again ?
mind you I remember using punch cards and paper tape and having to write my own driver for the readers
showing my age now
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