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Warp wrote:
> On the other hand, we are talking about 1976 here. With regular desktop
> computers we were talking about KMIPS and KFLOPS and a few kB of RAM at
> most.
On the gripping hand, one "mainframe" I programmed on (that was running
the entire K-12 school district, scheduling and grades and report cards
and payroll and such) could have been outrun by an Apple ][, if you
could get a 600 line-per-minute line printer hooked up to it. The same
kind of computer was running the local bank at the time. (Yeah, around
1976-1981 or so.) 32Kbytes of real live core memory, punched card
input, all that good stuff.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
Helpful housekeeping hints:
Check your feather pillows for holes
before putting them in the washing machine.
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