At work today I was unpacking a Dell computer, it was one of those Ultra Small Form Factor computers that they make (it might be a SX-270 but I wasn't paying too much attention to the model number), which is kind of small and lightweight. One of the co-workers asked me what kind of classes I took to learn about computers (and of the Dell that I was holding).
My reaction was back in 1975, the computer was the desk! Twin 8 inch floppies for storage and a self standing printer off to one side.
Actually it was a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), PDP-8/A. I think it had about 12 or 24 Kilowords of memory (the PDP-8 used 12 bit word size instead of the 8 bit byte). The 8 inch floppy stored around 800 Kilobytes of storage. It's main terminal was DEC VT-50 which displayed 12 lines by 80 columns which ran at 600 baud, while the printer was a DECwriter II terminal running at 300 baud. It was mainly used for editing and running BASIC programs.
For myself the first computer I owned was an Atari 400 which I got around 1982 or so.
My reaction was back in 1975, the computer was the desk! Twin 8 inch floppies for storage and a self standing printer off to one side.
Actually it was a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), PDP-8/A. I think it had about 12 or 24 Kilowords of memory (the PDP-8 used 12 bit word size instead of the 8 bit byte). The 8 inch floppy stored around 800 Kilobytes of storage. It's main terminal was DEC VT-50 which displayed 12 lines by 80 columns which ran at 600 baud, while the printer was a DECwriter II terminal running at 300 baud. It was mainly used for editing and running BASIC programs.
For myself the first computer I owned was an Atari 400 which I got around 1982 or so.
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