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  • 1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives?

    From James H. H. Lampert@21:1/5 to Van Snyder on Thu Dec 12 02:40:01 2024
    On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
    On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
    You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal
    spec
    for a desktop 2024.

    The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
    6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB, not MB, not GB. That's why IBM
    called it the 1401.

    And the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has a
    restored 1401 that they power up twice a week for demonstrations.

    As well as a restored DEC PDP-1. Not PDP-11. Not PDP-10. PDP-1. Until I
    saw it demonstrated, I wasn't even aware that DEC had ever used magnetic
    core memory. That one is only powered up for demonstrations twice a month.

    --
    James H. H. Lampert

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