The first main frame computer I had to work with was a DEC PDP11. It was still a little too large to call a PC. It ran at about 2meghz. The 8 inch floppy disks held anywhere from 300-600 kilobytes. The computer was not turn-key nor user friendly. To boot it you had to type in several keyboard memory locations.
The opsys was loaded on a floppy.
When they went to a hard drive (a ten megabyte Western Hard drive w/ 10k hours mtbf) we thought we were in hog heaven. They did make a cardinal error though. If something happened to the hard drive (and it did despite my warnings) the computer did not know to search the floppy drives for an alternate boot. The computer was down for 3 months. Afterwards they did install firmware for it to look for boots on the floppies.
It is amazing to see a single thumb drive holding just 16 gigabytes of data that would have taken more than 11,665 double sided floppies to hold. This is not to mention trying to load a program that needed 15-90 floppies and expecting no read errors.
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Today's Featured Article - Harvestin Hay: The Early Years (Part 2) - by Pat Browning. The summer of 1950 was the start of a new era in farming for our family. I was thirteen, and Kathy (my oldest sister) was seven. At this age, I believed tractor farming was the only way, hot stuff -- and given a chance I probably would have used the tractor, Dad's first, a 1936 Model "A" John Deere, to go bring in the cows! And I think Dad was ready for some automation too. And so it was that we acquired a good, used J. I. Case, wire tie hay baler. In addition to a person to drive th
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