Amazingly Accurate Tech Predictions
Not really RV related but I just had to post this somewhere.. :@ I just watched an old TV show called "Beachcombers". Since was a Canadian show many may not have heard of it? This particular epis...
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garry1p wrote:
Well I guess I must be really OLD having worked on drum memory, CRT memory and the most unique was a delay line memory that looked just like a long spring.
Yup, I can remember those "huge" rotating drums where the read/write heads traveled back and forth. Also those 2' rotating discs. Boy, when the read/write heads moved......:B Boy, that sure brings back memories of paper tape output (before high speed printers). Putting the tapes into a Flex-writer (electric typewriter with a paper tape reader fixed to it's side) to printout on continuous printer paper.
IBM model 24 keypunches for input. Occasionally the punch card readers would get out of adjustment and you would have to clean out a card jam. Then we got the magnetic tape servos with 2400' tape reels. I could go on and on, but you'd probably get bored after a while....:W
