Invisible escreveu:
>> We added 1MB of memory to an IBM 370/168 in the mid 70s.  Price? $50000.
> 
> Ouch! o_O
> 
> It still somewhat blows my mind that you could do anything useful with 
> so little memory. Presumably for processing large datasets, most of the 
> data at any one time would be in secondary storage?

Large datasets then were also very tiny compared to large datasets of 
today. :)

>> When I was at university in the mid to late 60s, I took a FORTRAN 
>> programming
>> course.  Punch program into cards, place in card tray, come back 4 to 
>> 6 hours
>> later and pick up your card deck and output listing.  Fix your typos 
>> and bugs
>> and repeat the above process until the program works.

see the revolution that were programs like ed (and its successor vi) in 
bringing flexible terminal text editing rather than wasting tons of 
paper... :)

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