As a slight side issue, I used to be an operator on an ICL 1905...... 32 K of
core memory (which was in a cabinet the size of a wardrobe), 8 K exchanable
disk drives and no operating system to talk of... you just typed commands
straight into the Executive programme (for those that only know of "modern" PC
computers, I guess that'd be the equivalent of the command processor).
I went to the London Science museum a couple of years ago and in the Computer
section there was a model of an "old" computer room. The model was of the
computer that I used to operate... I bored the kids telling them what all the
coloured buttons were called and what they did.
Grief, I really am getting old.
Sam
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