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 - Bad Vibes - by Curtis Von Fange. One of the strangest ways to communicate with our tractor is to ask it how it feels. "Ask it how it feels," you say? Yup, ask it how it feels. Now, as with the other articles in this series one has to be able to hear what 'ole blue' is trying to say in response. The nice thing about our old iron friends is that they are usually quite consistent in their response, rather unlike some people I know who might change what they say due to the weather or other mitigating circumstances. But since t
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