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Post by aceofspades on Sept 14, 2006 16:45:01 GMT -5
the first hard drive was made in 1956(50 years). it was the size of two refridgerators and could hold the equivilent of 1 mp3 song.  we salute you ;D |
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Post by B8 on Sept 14, 2006 18:02:29 GMT -5
Actauly the first hard drive was a drum drive. They did not yet have a disk that they could put enough information on so they used a drum for the storage medium and that is why it was such humongus size. As I recall it held about 1,000 bytes of information.
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Post by Canadian Nose on Sept 14, 2006 19:44:02 GMT -5
Anyone know if it still exists, I would guess in a museum, but still, would be an intresting place to visit.
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Post by B8 on Sept 15, 2006 15:03:35 GMT -5
The dinosuar speaks: I have a picture of it somewhere. Now all I have to do is find the damn picture. Actualy I have it in a book of old computers. Sigh a lifetime of accumulations and I cannot figure out where anything is. I guess that I must have enough stuff. Another early computer that I worked with was this beast www.columbia.edu/acis/history/7040.htmlThis is the first IBM computer that I know of to offer a disk drive as a standard option. It was the smaller brother of the IBM 7090 The 1401 was a machine that had a variable word length. You told it how long the word was and then wrote the rest of your program to accomodate that length. www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/5705/1401.htmlThe IBM 709 was the first IBM production computer for sale to the world. At that time in my opinion IBM was playing catch up with the UNIVAC computer. www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/IBM-709.htm |
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Post by Jayne, The Hero of Canton on Sept 15, 2006 18:09:44 GMT -5
Wow. That is interesting stuff. Very amazing.
B8, I knew you were older, but I always thought you were around my age. I'm just old enough to remember punch paper. These machines are ancient.
I have awsome respect for you now. LOL. I'm losing my reflexes already and you're still playing. I hope I'm still as nimble when I'm telling my kids about those antiquated usb drives and inkjet printers.
Cheers,
-Jayne
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Post by aceofspades on Sept 16, 2006 1:06:27 GMT -5
B8 i know the first drive isnt the same thing as the picture i posted but i was just posting a random picture of a hard drive.
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Post by B8 on Sept 16, 2006 17:43:55 GMT -5
I did not post my age as being 111+ for no reason at all. I am in truth older than more than three of you put together. So now does any one want to question Amy's age as being 82? Who cares how old any of you are. Mess with the best, die like the rest.
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Post by Moe on Sept 18, 2006 16:29:35 GMT -5
...B8 you rock
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Post by princessfuzzball on Sept 19, 2006 10:48:27 GMT -5
Oh B8, just admit it... you are older than the Earth. (it also explains why I'm over 1,000.)
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Post by Chu-Chu on Sept 19, 2006 11:46:29 GMT -5
You're over 1,000 Auntie?!? Sheesh... You're looking good for your age... and congrats on no major physical issues, other than your shoulder of course... Oh! And Way To Go! on not getting any illnesses that affect older folks.
~Chu
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Post by Canadian Nose on Sept 19, 2006 16:09:53 GMT -5
1,000 eh? Young'un.
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Post by B8 on Sept 19, 2006 22:30:42 GMT -5
Do not pick on my daughters, leave that to the appropriate people. YOU are not the appropriate people.
As for my age well my first computer was an abacuss. If you ask Amy or Auntie Jill they will tell you about the first experience that they had with that device. Let me tell you extracting a square root on an abacuss is not easy but it will teach you how to perform operations in sequence.
Wait my first computer was in something before roman numerals and was written on a wet clay tablet. How quickly I forget those things.
And Jane - try playing this game with failing vision, bad hearing, and slow reflexes slowed by a laggy connection. Thank goodness that the dsl line got about 200 miliseconds of better recently. Having the server in a shed in our back yard made all of the difference in the world for me. Look at my latency some time and you will see an 8 millisecond latency. Sweet!
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Post by Canadian Nose on Sept 19, 2006 22:53:55 GMT -5
Oh, thats a good one.
Something about his first computer used Roman Numerals in its binary code... I dunno, theres something there though.
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Post by Chu-Chu on Sept 20, 2006 8:13:54 GMT -5
I don't see writing on a wet clay tablet as a computer... by any standards.. I think your'e stretching the definition of a computer a bit far, but I understand what you are trying to say.
~Chu
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Post by B8 on Sept 20, 2006 13:02:44 GMT -5
OK so I should have said that I made my first calculations on a wet clay tablet. To be absolutely correct any one who did math at that time was called a computer. You computed the things that needed to be expressed in numbers and wrote them down. So the clay was my first "computer aide" ergo a computer. A scribe was a person who wrote words on those tablets. Now some one is going to ask me if I still speak old Latin. No I do not, and the first tablets will be revealed when I can remember where I put them. FAT CHANCE of that happening after more than... That would be giving you too much information.
Off to the campaign trail right now - got my candidate to help picked out. Any one else doing the right thing?
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