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Thursday, December 23, 2010
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WiZZy
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Little-TON - Colorado
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and what it meant to get mail....in THOZE days before email....websites like BP...and the mini PC....the disk drive I waZ trained to work on back then was a big as a refrigerator and waZ hydraulically driven pistons for the headZ to seek the track, one platter, a whole 16K of information..... The max memory chip for thoZe computer geekZ like Ken was made of yes....Bubble Memory....then to TorroZiodal Core arrayZ....made up of ferrouZ magnets....one core per bit position....of who hoo....a 8 bit processor operating system....total memory.....16K. WOW.....and we were gonna get a max upgrade to a new system with new type memory.....200K Ken....believe it or not......lol that was the way back then......
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