Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Yikes-a-Mongo

This was an IBM magnetic drum drive; the drum had about two dozen magnetic discs. It weighed over a ton.


Its capacity was, for the time, an astonishing 5Mb. It was part of a computer that IBM would lease for $3,200 a month (nearly $25,000/month in today's money).
Posted by on or about 17:44

2 comments:

Eck! said...

Yes, Since my first birthday computers and associated storage have gone from over 20,000 square feet in floor space to a corner of ones pocket while going 1 million times faster and storing 10000 times more data.

The RAMAC was more than storage with was a whole new idea of random access to data which up to then was sequential access on tapes. The speed up in data handling was significant.
It was obsolete within 5 years.

Amazingly few exist, after they came back from lease IBM being protective of their knowledge and were scraped.


Eck!

6/17/2010 11:56 PM
Nangleator said...

That's one area of human endeavor that leaped ahead just like science fiction of the 50's and 60's promised.

I got no flying car, but at least I can model, render, and simulate one.

6/18/2010 8:47 AM

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