On 5/17/2010 2:54 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>
> Was anybody actually there? Did any of you guys see this happen? What
> was it like? And did mainframes really come in bright orange cases with
> inch-square glowy buttons on the front that randomly twinkle?
>

;) I remember as a kid in the 80's walking into an office that had a 
computer room. A real-life room-sized mainframe. One wall had a bank of 
tape machines, the CPU was a box the size of a Smart car sort of in the 
middle of the room, and there was a huge array of disks that took up the 
rest of the room.

All controlled by a tiny terminal in the corner flanked by an 8" floppy 
drive, and a few other binders and such.

It was quite neat to see!

-- 
~Mike

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