22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
6:55 a.m.
On 03/21/2018 07:50 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0400, Arthur
Krewat wrote:
I remember Masscomp... We used one (I forget model) in the field in the
late 80s in the back of a tractor trailer. We'd capture radar signals
with it because it allowed data acquisition to not be swapped out. It
was a very expensive failure if, just as you started getting the short
radar return, something like system logging swapped you out for a little!
Mike Markowski
I used to regularly compress sources of various
distributions (not UNIX, but
inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for $1000.
I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...
I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk and 20 users. That
was, um, "fun".