A bit of computing history

NachaLuva · #1 29th October 2014, 11:57 PM

Kind of a joke, just found this while going through my old SD cards

Tweaksta · #2 30th October 2014, 02:54 AM

I think I've got a 64mb one somewhere but 32mb is cracker......That's around 22 floppies!!

!!

Ratbag · #3 30th October 2014, 03:07 AM

Yeah, I've got a 32 MB CF card that came with my first serious digital camera - 5 megapixels. It will hold two TIFF files ...

.

These days, I am hard pressed to find anywhere that stocks even 8 GB CF cards ...

Kevin · #4 30th October 2014, 03:44 AM

I still have an 80 column punch card! Holds 80 characters - beat that

Ratbag · #5 30th October 2014, 04:03 AM

^ I have several boxes of these that contain the data and programming of SPSS to analyse what people did when typing stuff.

From the late-ish 1970s, when I was responsible for the assessment and purchase of the first screen-based word processing computer used in Telecom.

ateday · #6 30th October 2014, 05:44 AM

Not a hoarder are you??

Ratbag · #7 30th October 2014, 06:15 AM

^ Who?

Me?

But it was the first time in the world that this had actually been done! So I am a tad proud of my experimental design, data collection and programming of one of the Telecom mainframes that had SPSS on it.

ateday · #8 30th October 2014, 07:53 AM

And so you should be. Well done.
No sarcasm or cheek implied.
It`s possibly worth money for someone somewhere.

NachaLuva · #9 30th October 2014, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin

I still have an 80 column punch card! Holds 80 characters - beat that

Don't even know what that is lol

ateday · #10 30th October 2014, 08:34 PM

They were a loooong time ago, 1960`s perhaps.